Subject: Re: Word Exporter Project
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 13:53:25 CST
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 11:44 AM 3/2/00 -0600, sam th wrote:
> >However, just for
> >laughs, Microsoft decided that instead of dealing with HTML as a lossy
> >format compared to Word documents, they would just extend the language
> >instead.
>
> It wasn't entirely for laughs, but it does feel that way. Also,
> the HTML/XML format is only handled natively (AFAIK) by Word2000).
>
>
> >As this format is essentially HTML, with lots of extensions via an
> >extended version of XML, we can just work of the HTML exporter.
>
> That's true. FYI: the XML blocks inside the HTML are called (in
> MS parlance) "XML Islands" and should NOT be added to the normal HTML
> export since it will make Abi's HTML no longer "validate".
>
Thanks for the info on "Islands" - what a bad idea. And I didn't mean to
suggest we should change our real HTML exporter (which I feel sort of
attached to) to output MS garbage. Only that we can start using the HTML
exporter as a beginning code base.
>
> LDR
>
sam th
sytobinh@uchicago.edu
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