Re: imho

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> 
> On lundi, juin 9, 2003, at 01:51 Europe/Paris, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 
>> Saying a Microsoft program produces XML is only marginally more
>> helpful than saying it produces ASCII.
>> XML is no use if you dont have the schema and cant figure out what it
>> means, or if it is embedded full of meaningless MIME encoded binar
>> chunks.
>>
> AFAICT, Microsoft published the DTD of that XML file format. But I'm
> not sure how far it goes. Given recent experiences on waht Office 2003
> does when saving Word docs to XML files, I'm really upset. It should
> be note that OmniGraffle, and MacOS X prioprietary tool to do
> diagramming import Visio XML files, so it could be doable.
> 
We have a DTD (or Schema) for the Visio XML, and that looks pretty ok.
Whther they use it or not... Does this OmniGraffle program output so,ething
useful?

-Lars
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