RE: [xml-dev] Word 2003 schemas available

 (Murali Mani) writes:

>thanks, and interesting. Actually I noticed that Word -> XML eating up
>disk, which is very true for large word documents (we ignored that
>point in previous emails).

Odd.  The only times I've noticed XML files being much larger than .doc
files was when they contained pictures or other data Word treats as
binary - and then reports as @#X! Base 64.

Generally I've found my Word XML files to be close to their .doc
equivalents, and sometimes even smaller.