Re: Think Secret: iWork 07 has a spreadsheet

Chris Ridd <chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2006-07-09 00:07:08 +0100, usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Woody) said:

Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 05/07/2006, Graham Lee wrote in message
<12ao8jkk14g67ba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

They might document the iWork XML format more completely.

True, but until it is documented, it is, at least, XML, and therefore very
easy to inspect and analyse. You can take any Keynote or Pages document,
understand it and modify it with reasonable confidence that your
modifications will work. Of course, there are some things that are hard
to do: if you insert enough text to change the pagination, how can you
tell where the pages should break unless you come up with your own
rendering engine ?

You can work it out after a while. I have spent quite a bit of time over
the last few months converting WordML into structured XML for display in
XML browsers.
It is nice to be able to free documents from that sort of format, but it
is amazing the amount of junk in those files

Is this the current version of WordML, or the shiny new (different)
version in the version of Office that's just been delayed again?

The current version of WordML - the office 2003 type.

It has been claimed that WordML uses CSS to describe the formatting in
a WordML doc. I don't know if that's true or not.

Well, not the 2003 type there isn't. each node can have a style, or
individual styling information, or if it doesn't, its style is given by
its line type (which always has a style or uses the document default
style.
There is an amazing amount of information in those files and it is quite
hard to process them (especially with XSLT). Also you don't realise what
stupid things word does under the surface.
One of the documents came back as some of the text was missing. The word
'Hard drive' was missing. I looked back through the original document
and the word was in a 'smart' tag, as it decided it was an address!




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