Re: SEUL: Boring word processors

[Simon Waldman <swaldman@bigfoot.com>]

David Cary wrote:

>
>
> Why won't SGML answer the question ? I really don't know much about
> it, but
> it seems kinda cool to have a extensible markup language, such that
> new
> word processors could read old files, and old word processors could
> read
> nearly all of a new file, and still be able to deal non-stupidly with
> "new"
> mark-ups.
>

Nowadays you'd probably want to use XML instead - the only danger being
that M$ seems to be considering supporting it as the Office format. ie
they will start to take it over and modify it. If they support it
PROPERLY things will be wonderful, since Office will use a standard file
format.Getting back on-topic, although this is a nice idea I suspect it
would take quite a lot of extra coding effort to handle all the
meta-data involved. I may be wrong, though - I'm no programmer.


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