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SGML was Re: Word and amazon.com (was: PDF a "book" of Word files )
Subject:SGML was Re: Word and amazon.com (was: PDF a "book" of Word files ) From:"Clark F. Morris, Jr." <cfmtech -at- istar -dot- ca> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:58:34 -0300
In regard to the postings below, for the formatting part, that is why
SGML (standardized general markup language) was in invented. I think
that the various governments and major organizations missed an
opportunity to make their organizations less dependent on specific
vendors for word processing and desktop publishing. I believe Corel's
Word Perfect 11 will store and retrieve SGML documents.
Clark Morris, CFM Technical Programming Services Inc., cfmtech -at- istar -dot- ca
Sean Hower wrote:
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> Eric Dunn wrote:
> What I disagree with in the XML hype is the idea that FM, Word, and everyone else will play seamlessly together allowing people to create, modify, and print with identical results.
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> Correct.
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> XML will allow the sharing of content. The formatting and output will be up to how each individual DTP treats/processes and then displays the XML.
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> Ideally. Do any of the existing DTP applications out there do this though? Are there plans for them to do it this way?
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> Sean Hower - tech writer
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