Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (121 mails)

[Mr G M Locock <gml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 22 May, Derek Harding  wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2001  9:14 am, you wrote:
> > > Yes - it's already in this country, see
> > >  http://www.dfee.gov.uk/ims/cbds.shtml
> > > and I hope we will be using this sort of format soon.

And there was me thinking PDF was on the way to being
a "universal" format.  Proprietary of course... but
at least not MS.  Do we need yet another standard??

I only ask 'cos I don't know the pros & cons of XML.

> > Hmmm.  Not a particularly good start - much of the
> > documentation (even the FAQs) for this appear to
> > be provided in proprietory document formats!
> >
> >From their site there is a feedback option which I returned to them 
saying 
> just what I thought about proprietry formats. Perhaps something to ask 
those
> 
fellows on the hustings in the coming weeks!
> 

I look forward to informed, high quality answers!  :-)

Gary
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