[OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

[stephen barncard]

"Open" XML?   - oxymoron
MS has seemingly done the same thing for XML what they did for SQL, html and
javascript.... de-standardize it 'just enough' to make interchange more
difficult without their blessing.


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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
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2009/10/12 Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>

> Dave-
>
> Monday, October 12, 2009, 1:22:56 AM, you wrote:
>
> > Is this Microsoft's open xml format by the way?
>
> Yep. That it is. The bloat is MS Word namespace tags on every element.
> I'd be embarrassed to write something like
>
> <w:p w:rsidR="00E52FAC" w:rsidRPr="002C0BD1" w:rsidRDefault="00E52FAC"
> w:rsidP="007C075C">
>  <w:pPr>
>  <w:autoSpaceDE w:val="0"/>
>  <w:autoSpaceDN w:val="0"/>
>  <w:adjustRightInd w:val="0"/>
>  <w:rPr><w:bCs/>
>   <w:color w:val="000000"/>
>  </w:rPr>
>  </w:pPr>
> </w:p>
>
> (that's a paragraph tag with no content, apparently to provide a blank
> line)
>
> --
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
>