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• Subject: Re: Remembering the original XML vision
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:18:38 -0500
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At 09:30 AM 2/18/2003 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>Publishers can reasonably expect authors to install and
>maintain their own copies of Word (or OpenOffice) at home, but they
>cannot expect the same for XML authoring software.

Yep. It's hard for users to write documents in XML. I wonder if that will 
change with Microsoft's new Office software.

Anyone have opinions on that?

Jonathan 

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