[ale] Visio->Linux? (was: ALE NW meeting last night)

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Friday 21 February 2003 05:46 pm, Fulton Green wrote:
> Well, they're pushing towards XML the same way they pushed towards HTTP,
> HTML and such.  IIRC, one of the news articles suggested that they would
> be keeping the DTDs for Office 11 to themselves.  Still, given the
> choice between re-engineering an XML format or a binary one, I'll take
> XML any day.

My understanding of MS XML is that it tends to have large opaque blocks of 
binary data encoded in some ascii format so they can claim XML support, 
but without actually exposing their data.

I have not confirmed this first-hand, however.

Michael

> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:20:55PM -0700, Joe wrote:
> > Wait... MicroSoft *pushing* an open standard??? That makes no
> > sense. Oh, wait, I bet it'll be called "MS-XML", it will have subtle
> > but infuriating incompatibilities with standard XML syntax, and all
> > the DTDs will be top secret.
>
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