[Zope] ANNOUNCE: Zope/XML Roadmap

[Jens Vagelpohl]

Speaking of XML as a shared file format, <!--#shameless plug-->KOffice 
is supposed to be using XML once it is complete as 
well...<!--#/shameless plug-->

:)

Jens Vagelpohl


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On 7/21/99, 11:05:01 AM, "Ross J. Reedstrom" 
<reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu> wrote regarding Re: [Zope] ANNOUNCE: 
Zope/XML Roadmap:


> Zopeists -
> Hmm, This all looks wonderful. It's particularly interesting to see
> Tony McDonald's project developing right along with the tools. (Don't
> you love living on the bleeding edge, Tony? ;-) A lot of people talk
> about collaborative content development these days, nice to see some 
one
> doing it.  Actually, with these tools all open source, it's a lot less
> risky than being an "early adopter" of the latest and greatest 
vaporware.

> The real reason for my post is to ask all you XML gurus about the
> potential usefulness of AbiWord, the GPLed commercial word processor 
from
> the people at www.abisource.com. In many ways, it's an MS-Word clone,
> and it's cross platform - first targets, Win32 and Linux/(Unix/X/GTK,
> actually).  Interestingly, it uses XML as it's native storage format. 
It'd
> sure be cool to be able to use Zope as a sort of shared storage space,
> and hand my users AbiWord and a URL.

> Tony, you mention doing the RTF->XML->Zope->HTML shuffle. What tool
> chain are you using for the first two conversions?

> Ross
> --
> Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu>
> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
> Computer and Information Technology Institute
> Rice University, 6100 S. Main St.,  Houston, TX 77005

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