MS Office and XML

[MisterX]

Marielle,

xml is supposed to be unicode not ascii unless the
dtf tells you so... Although I would think it a good
behavior for programs to check this anyway ;)

It's usually a good start, before using a format, to know
it expected structure, encoding, etc...

Not that ascii xml is not good but it is not standard.

Is ASCII obsolete? ;)

Also the real xml office format is in OpenOffice...
Unless you like updating your parsers every 6 months MS
releases a fix for office ;)

On the positive side of things, MS keeps developpers busy ;)

cheers
Xavier
http://monsieurx.com/taoo
RevOffice included (under construction ;)

> -----Original Message-----
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> Marielle Lange
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 December, 2005 17:35
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> Subject: MS Office and XML 
> 
> I wouldn't bet on the ASCII format. There have been talks 
> about of a binary xml format.
> <http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/13/deviant.html>
> <http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/qna/
> 0,289202,sid26_gci1027594,00.html>
> 
> 
> > The latest Office suite uses XML as the native file format. 
>  Not sure 
> > how open and available it is, but it should ideally be 
> writable since 
> > it's ultimately ASCII now....
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