Word and amazon.com (was: PDF a "book" of Word files )

["Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com wrote:
> Actually, sounds to me like Microsoft might actually be on to
> the correct use of
> XML. The transfer and sharing of data. NOT the standardisation
> of documentation
> processes, structure, and formatting.

Documents *are* data to be transferred and shared.

Amazon offers its catalog as a free reference database; maybe other vendors
will follow suit.
http://news.com.com/2100-7345_3-5087891.html

Now that Amazon offers an XML API, and Office has acquired an XML back end,
it is a no-brainer to create an interface to Amazon. If Amazon didn't
provide it, someone would have written a VBA module to do it anyway.

So you can probably write a similar Office add-in for any other web service.
For example, maybe it's possible to write a Word routine where you feed it
an ISBN number, and it returns an APA-formatted bibliographic reference -
that would be cool.

Mike O.



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