On 24 août, 13:34, Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > olive wrote: > > What you need is good structured text editor which hides as much as > > possible the underlying XML (or other) format. > > What you do there is pose extra requirements on the user ("Use a text > editor with some far-out functions"). That will prevent your (well, > Torsten's ;)) standard from spreading easily. Plain text (read: less > intrusive) markup is a way better approach there, IMHO, because it can > be done in any old editor.
We are talking about two different things: data entry and document publishing. for me ODF is good for document publishing only. I agree that Plain Text Markup is usually better than XML even with a good XML editor and a simple schema. But few people are used to Plain Text Markup (excepted in some scientific area maybe) and it is error prone. This is why some user-friendly PTM or XML based editors are needed. Good user-friendly editor will help in spreading standard. OpenOffice is a good example for ODF but this has never happened to XML or any other markup language. Olive
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