Ok Shawn, here is a simple example, write a web application to process submitted resumes, and pick out some pre-selected keywords in the resumes , and yes, do that with ooxml documents too, not just the odf and the pure text and pdf once... A simple example. Can make more if you like ... Cheers Szemir
On April 1, 2008 17:55, Shawn wrote: > bogi wrote: > > Shawn, It does have an effect on you as a programmer. By becoming a > > standard, you as a programmer will have to implement code to read and > > write documents in that format, and since a significant part of the > > standard involves > > Where does it say that? Who is standing behind me with the whip to make > me? I have a choice if I want to do this. A standard does not make the > choice for me. I would only care if I am writing code that needs to > talk with Microsoft products and/or OOXML based products. a) that's not > likely (for me), and b) I can still convince people to use the easier > (and already existing) solution. > > > proprietary and patented Microsoft software and algorithms, you would > > have no hope of producing a reasonable reproduction of the format without > > those proprietary and closely guarded (ip) of Microsoft, and they may > > decide not to give it to you at all, specially if you are an open source > > developer or developing a competing application to theirs. > > Unfortunately by winning, Microsoft has destroyed the credibility of ISO > > as a credible source of reference regarding what flies and what does not. > > I tend to agree with the rest of your comments. The next year will be > interesting to see what happens with the standardization process. I > think we'll see lots of fallout from this. A flawed system has been > identified, and in the nature of Open Source a better system will be > found to minimize those flaws. Or perhaps I have too much faith in > humanity? :) > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
