ms word vs html ?

augie schwer at sonic.net
Tue Oct 1 09:32:19 PDT 2002


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On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:32:23AM -0700, error wrote:
> My friend who will not join this discussion agrees with eric on the idea
> of XML. I also think XML is useful. However I feel that the end user
> writing the document might be squimish unless you are running linux (and
> you are considering .doc so that might not be an option.).
> If you can go with xml do it it is the way to go.
> Then you can run one script that converts your documentation to
> everything else, pdf, rtf, html, ascii art :)

well you've piqued my intrest about xml. but i don't know much about
xml, what are its advantages over html, and specifically what would be
better about it in this instance?

since most likely i'll be the one who is the XML/HTML Editor running
some software like DocBook wouldn't be a problem. 

so it may be that i don't win the open vs proprietary standards war
this time, but perhaps i can wow them with the versitility of open
standards with something like docbook.

ps...thanks to everyone for their responses! :)

 -augie


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