On Sunday 24 February 2002 22:15, Joshua b. Jore wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hmm ok, but if Microsoft starts writing XML instead of it's proprietary > binary format then that will be *oodles* of fun when you throw XSL at it. > The whole point of XML is so you can do stuff like XSL (from my > perspective which involves getting multiple disparit systems talking to > each other). > That assumes that the XML definition they create is not just a wrapper to the proprietary binary format. This was one of the suggestions I heard a couple of years ago when it was first annouced that the office formats, with the exception of databases (mdb) would move toward XML. No one expected Microsoft to make it easy for people to read write Word or Excel documents without the given program. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com