Seems it's all been worthwhile :)

[Richard Light]

In message <199712051851.TAA03832 at relay2.force9.net>, Adrian Orlowski
<adrian at solero.force9.net> writes
>...
>The news is that this scenario might not be that far away: 
>
>"Microsoft CEO Bill Gates recently said that XML will be the
>data format for Office and HTML will be the display
>standard." I have the following reference for this:
>Vendors to push XML as all-purpose Web middleware format
>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?97121.exml.htm

Excellent news.  I make/made a similar plea in 'Presenting XML' ("XML-
Based Authoring", p.44-47).

Richard.

Richard Light
SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
richard at light.demon.co.uk

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