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Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)

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From: Phil
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 00:00

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Decklin Foster wrote:

>Hmm. Microsoft says (whatever than means) that they're going to use
>XML in Office 2000. (So sue me, I was stuck in a waiting room today
>with nothing but "industry" rags and Newsweek.) A certain statement
>caught my eye...
>
>"Lotus is going to wait until Microsoft creates XML-based standards
>before jumping in. However, this depends on whether or not Microsoft
>choosed to make the DTDs public."
>
>I doubt they can really keep us from just looking at data files, but
>it begs the question of if XML should make things easier for content,
>or for vendors...

If I understand XML correctly, the knowledge of the DTD is in the
parser (i.e. the browser or application) and not in the data file. Any
XML application will be able to parse any standards compliant XML
document, but it won't necessarily know what to do with it. If a
particular DTD specification is released, an existing application will
be able to be updated to understand it in the same way that current
web browsers can have plugins added to interpret new types of
'content'.

XML should make _everybody's_ life easier. In theory.

Phil
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From: phil@drbob.co.uk (Phil)
Subject: Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)
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