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Liam, Thankfully, floppy disks seem to be down to about 1 per month. Every time you think they are gone for good... a new one seems to arrive in the mail.. :-( David Quoting Liam Quin <liam@w...>: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:30:13AM +1100, david.lyon@c... wrote: > > Elliotte, > > > > You'd be surprised the number of companies that still > > use floppy disks to send out data. So many find they > > can use CSV because it fits on a floppy, and are unable > > to use xml because it won't fit. > > Of course, if they could compress the XML file with gzip (or if > their application did this for them, as OpenOffice and AbiWord can, > for example) the file would probably be even smaller. > > But I accept that such an approach may create a human training problem. > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------
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