[LINK] XML Saves the World?

[Tom Worthington]

At 7/14/2004 07:10 PM, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
>... Open Office ... SXW file is actually a ZIP-compressed set of XML 
>documents. ... why on earth is it necessary to generate seven files for 
>one WP document? ...

There is an option for having everything in one Open Office XML "flat" 
file  (similar to Ms-Word's XML format). But if all you want is the text of 
the document it is handy to have it in a separate file ("Content.xml" for OOO).

For more on OOO and MS-Word's XML format see 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/2002/epo.html> and 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/2003/xmlstd.html>.

A more practical demo will be given by my student, Tim Wilson-Brown, in his 
talk "E-Publishing Scientific Papers: Conversion of Word documents to an 
XML-based format" at Open Publish 2004 in Sydney on Friday 30 July 
<http://www.openpublish.com.au/program.asp?myCategory=SpeakerDetail&mySpeakerID=151>.



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