XML and (K)Office

[Paul Prescod]

David Megginson wrote:
> 
> For those of you who don't know, the current incarnation of the
> emacs/vi or sh/csh religious battle (or perhaps SGML/XML) in the Linux
> world is KDE vs. Gnome as the desktop manager.  I'm in the Gnome camp,
> so it is with mixed feelings that I draw attention to the fact that
> KOffice for KDE (see article [2]) uses XML-based save formats for
> *all* of its applications (word processor, spreadsheet, formula
> designer, presentation manager, etc. etc.).

Note that other standards in use in KOffice include CORBA, and
Linuxdoc/SGML (for KDE documentation). These guys obviously have a
standards focus.

Probably not coincidentally they use Python for scripting and formulas.
-- 
 Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
 http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

"Perpetually obsolescing and thus losing all data and programs every 10
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a civilization." - Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog
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