I was under the impression that a doc encoded in XML would do more than just format the text. Couldn't they also mark up content specifiers like email addresses, proper nouns, misspelled (sp?) words, or things like that? It seems to me that using XML in word docs would make them a lot more usfull to other applications.
I think MS tried to do this with smart-tags, but I havn't seen anyone use them. I turn them off whenever they activate. Perhaps if other applications could read the tags, they would be more widely used...
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I was under the impression that a doc encoded in XML would do more than just format the text. Couldn't they also mark up content specifiers like email addresses, proper nouns, misspelled (sp?) words, or things like that? It seems to me that using XML in word docs would make them a lot more usfull to other applications.
I think MS tried to do this with smart-tags, but I havn't seen anyone use them. I turn them off whenever they activate. Perhaps if other applications could read the tags, they would be more widely used...