[plug] [not Linux] Article: Thinking XML: The open office file format

[Bret Busby]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Jacqueline McNally wrote:

> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:19:19 +0800
> From: Jacqueline McNally <jacqueline at decisions-and-designs.com.au>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: [plug] [not Linux] Article: Thinking XML: The open office file
>     format
> Resent-Date: Mon,  3 Feb 2003 10:20:43 +0800 (WST)
> Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 
> For those of you that are working with XML or interested in OpenOffice.org, 
> you may find this interesting:
> 
> An XML format for front office documents
> Uche Ogbuji, Principal Consultant, Fourthought, Inc.
> January 2003
> 
> "OpenOffice.org is a mature, open source, front office applications suite 
> with the advantage of a saved file format based on an open XML DTD. This 
> gives users and developers an extraordinary amount of flexibility and power 
> in dealing with work produced in OpenOffice.org. In this article, Uche 
> Ogbuji introduces the OpenOffice file format and explains its advantages."
> 
> 

DTD? Plurry acrominious acronyms!

Out of interest, from what I understand, GRAMPS, genealogy program 
running on Linux, uses XML file to store data.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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 you'll know what the answer means."
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  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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