See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML
You're not the first to observe that the situation "begs for
standardization". XML is the answer the world appears to be settling on, not
just for word documents, but for information exchange in general. It's an
open (non-proprietary) plain text file format "that allows information and
services to be encoded with meaningful structure and semantics that
computers and humans can understand".
It's similar to HTML only in that both use mark-up tags, and both are
derived from SGML.
W2003 documents can be saved as XML; all Office 2007 documents are
compressed XML.
"Walter R." wrote in message
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XML, Isn't that similar to HTML? That does not sound like it is a popular
file format for word-processor documents. What am I missing?
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Walter
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"Jezebel" wrote in message
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Ever heard of XML?
"Walter R." wrote in message
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What is the most commonly used file format for word processor documents?
Word is limited to owners of Word, .rtf is not much better, the new Word
2007 format is also proprietary. .txt is very limited. How about the
Open Office format?
This situation really begs for standardization. It would be nice if
anybody could read everybody else's documents. Is MS the stumbling block
in adopting non-proprietary standards? Any hope for a world-wide
standard?
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Walter
www.rationality.net
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