On Tuesday 28 November 2006 9:30 pm, Bo Peng wrote: > > I think there's hope that in the future people will rather require Open > > Doc Format files instead of Word. Then it would be great if Lyx could > > export ODF easily. Maybe the planned XML file format will help...? > > Lars seems to be doing XML privately and I have no idea what he has in > mind.
The branch in svn is public. :-) > It is not difficult to produce some lyx-specific XML format but > it would be much better if this XML format can be used exchangeable > with some other applications/standards like ooffice, docbook or even > MS Word. I mean, if there are perfect output from some existing XML > format, why not use it? For the same reason we have not used latex as a file format. Being in xml means that you can use the xml tools to convert between formats. > Of course, my XML knowledge is close to zero.... > > Bo -- José Abílio
