Re: OpenDocument format

2005-09-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Mike Meyer wrote: > On the subject of making LyX use XML as a native format - please don't > do that just because XML is the flavor of the month. Only do that if > it buys something real. XML is mostly good as a standard for document > interchange (it's used for lots of other things that it's not g

Re: OpenDocument format

2005-09-29 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Another question is, whether it is worth the effort to make LyX do this if > good XML-to-XML transformation tools exist (do they yet?) Depends on how you define good. But XSLT is defined, available as a C library - with Python bin

Re: OpenDocument format

2005-09-28 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:58:40 +0100 Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given that the world and his dog appears to be moving not just to XML > but to OpenDocument http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument, I > wonder if we should consider going the whole hog when we move to XML? > > Seems

OpenDocument format

2005-09-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Given that the world and his dog appears to be moving not just to XML but to OpenDocument http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument, I wonder if we should consider going the whole hog when we move to XML? Seems like the format is rich enough to support what we need. -- Angus