xml-dev - RE: XML in .NET - more than just SOAP?

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>]

> From: Michael Champion [mailto:Mike.Champion@softwareag-usa.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 1:08 AM
> To: xml-dev@xml.org
> Subject: Re: XML in .NET - more than just SOAP?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
> To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>; <xml-dev@xml.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 5:55 PM
> Subject: Re: XML in .NET - more than just SOAP?
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> > Joshua Allen wrote:
> >
> > > * Office 2000 produces something that resembles XHTML, and
> can be turned
> > > into XHTML with moderate postprocessing.
> >
> > What would be very useful is information on just what postprocessing
> > is required.  Nobody has supplied this to xml-dev yet.
>
> Don Raggett's tidy program?  I don't have Office 2K, so I can't check for
> myself.  But as I understand the previous posts, the differences between
> O2KML ;~) and XHTML are the same kinds of things that the HTML
> browsers have
> accepted for years, such as not quoting attribute values, and this is the
> kind of stuff that I've used tidy to clean up very effectively.

Not true. Word 2000 writes XML "islands" into HTML comments, so all this
information can't be easily made available to the XML parser...