Microsoft XML

[Alex Shaw]

Hi

In any case it makes it hard for small developers to want to support the 
maze-like format. 6000 pages?!

Back to simple tab-delimited files for me or..

Has anyone looked at the native format used by Apple's "Numbers"? If 
that's simpler I can convince the client to buy that because they are 
Macintel-based.

Just looking at the apple site it mentions Open Financial Exchange(OFX). 
  This appears to be another Microsoft format but the 2.1.1 spec is only 
665 pages long. Still a bit of reading.

I think I'll get back into writing computer games after this project :)

regards
alex


Peter T. Evensen wrote:
> I should have said something on digg.com about #2.  I don't really 
> consider #2 a problem.  It has to do with converting decimal to binary.  
> Excel stores numbers as numbers, not as text, and there is no way to 
> store 12345.12345 in binary as exactly that.
>