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- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- To: "XML Developers' List" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:35:06 -0600
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
years (the current pattern) is no way to run an information economy or
a civilization." - Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog
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