Subject: Re: Are you working with the StarOffice/OpenOffice ppl on file format?
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 10:05:53 CDT
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Jeff Schmidt wrote:
> Hello,
> I was looking at the Abiword website, and noticed you are using XML
> for you file format. I think this is excellent, as I really believe the
> future of wordprocessor/spreadsheet/etc file formats should be xml based
> for portability and compatability. I was also looking at the openoffice
> website the other day, and see that one of their goals is to create a
> standardized XML DTD for wordprocessor files (as well as other file
> formats). Will you be working with them to develop this standard and
> implement it in Abiword?
>
We've heard from their lead MS Word filter developer who wrote most of our
MS Word import filter. Other than that we haven't heard from them. They're
welcome to use to use our working XML file format :-) Sam has even written
up a DTD describing the format.
Cheers
Martin
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