Office 2003 Pro as an XML Authoring Application?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday July 21, 2004 @04:24AM from the state-your-opinions dept.

Saqib Ali asks: "Office 2003 Pro as been out for quite some time now. I was wondering how many large corporations have been to able use it as a XML authoring / modelling application? I have been involved in evaluation of several XML authoring / modelling applications and am planning to evaluate Office 2003 for it's XML authoring capabilities. The scope of my evaluation is limited to capabilities required for authoring technical documentation, preferably in DocBook XML. Is there anything I should keep in mind before starting the evaluation? One feature that I like about Office 2003 is its support for WebDAV. Our homebrewed CMS (Content Management Systems) supports WebDAV, which makes publishing the content a breeze. Except for OpenOffice, I haven't seen any other XML authoring application that has support for WebDAV. Any suggestions?"

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question for the author by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-21 04:34 · Score: 0, Troll

Can you explain exactly what the point of XML is ?

It kind of makes sense for data interchange, but then so does ASCII. I don't see the point of taking ASCII where the problem is what the words mean, adding pointy brackets and setting up a scheme to strip them out, and then having the same problem of what the text means.

You can presume I've heard a lot of XML hype and obviously still have this question, so maybe concrete examples would be good.