Re: [Sheflug] Re: Open Office

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

> > If XML becomes the de-facto standard it should make docs fully
> > portable. Of course, the XML will just be a wrapper around MS doc types
> > thus spoiling the effect.....
>
> And all document sizes will be over 1Mb even for a post it note. :)
> Seriously, I think I'm the only person in the world that thinks XML is
> a horribly inefficient format, in both parsing time and file size.
> And CSS, whooo, just reading that standard makes me come over queasy. :)

XML parses faster than a lot of things. It compresses fantastically. You can
transport it over practically anything. XML is a joy to work with (I do).
CSS is less necessary these days - although, if CSS makes you ill, don't
look at XSLT/XSL.

Cheers,

Alex.

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