31 May
2001
31 May
'01
22:15
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Internet Niue wrote:
My opinion may count for nothing, but I very much believe that any one application's format should not be the standard. A standard should be autonomous. Not connected to an application free or otherwise.
So now I'm really curious....is there an ansi standard for what a document is?
We used to have a perfectly good one. It was called ASCII. The US Government funded the development of SGML, which was supposed to be a standard for document exchange, I think. Since XML was derived from SGML, might not XML be a good choice for a vendor-independent exchange format? Of course, Micro$oft would have to be prevented from making proprietary extensions.... Regards, Lew Wolfgang