Haveing just one XML format is ok, if the format is well designed. If Microsoft OpenXML where well designed and an offical well documented format it's ok.
But it's not ok. OpenXML is a verbatim translation of the binary, propritary doc-format. It destroy many advantage a well designed XML format provides: readablility, topological order of items etc.
Writing a (xslt) translator to some domain specific format is a pain in the a** with OpenXML. There are many inherited wastes we have to deal with. The format is bloated, there are many different representations of the same item.
I think that's a basic problem. I currently searching for a master study centered around software developpment processes but can't find one. Some go in this direction but none cover all of the basics. I've started to read books like F. P. Brooks and Poppendieck. That should be taught!
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By your logic, OpenOffice shouldn't even support Microsoft .doc because .doc is a bloated format.
No, by my logic OpenOffice should not support .doc as default format because it's bloated.
If we have the chance to get the default format right, we should use a well designed format.
Haveing just one XML format is ok, if the format is well designed. If Microsoft OpenXML where well designed and an offical well documented format it's ok.
But it's not ok. OpenXML is a verbatim translation of the binary, propritary doc-format. It destroy many advantage a well designed XML format provides: readablility, topological order of items etc.
Writing a (xslt) translator to some domain specific format is a pain in the a** with OpenXML. There are many inherited wastes we have to deal with. The format is bloated, there are many different representations of the same item.
ODF is simpler.
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I think that's a basic problem. I currently searching for a master study centered around software developpment processes but can't find one. Some go in this direction but none cover all of the basics. I've started to read books like F. P. Brooks and Poppendieck. That should be taught!
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Thats true. I just read about a new method that's quite simple: Measure the perimeter of the belly.
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It would be like the police being allowed to shoot people they see speeding. It makes a lot of sense to me.
For me too.