I remember, when I was a wee lad, Pitfall was my favorite game on the 2600. I lived it. And, on one incredible day, when I was probably 12 years old, I scored a 107,000 or so without losing a life. I must've missed a few treasures, because the game kept going and I ended up running out all 20 minutes. Mom & Dad let dinner wait an additional ten minutes or so until I was done. I even took a photo of the TV screen to send it in to the "Pitfall Harry" club... too bad the photo didn't turn out. Man, that was a drag. But I *do* have my brother as witness. And I never even got close to that score again, unfortunately.
Huh? Have you used XML? XML has very, very little to do with formatting (I suppose it depends on your implementation) and everything to do with document structure. As long as users just clickey-clickey their bold & italics, bump indents with a button, and make headlines with font changes rather than use a style consistently, this is a problem that XML won't solve. Even a 'save as XML' option. To say XML is the panacea is to not understand the problem. Even a tight XML DTD can be implemented crappily.
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I remember, when I was a wee lad, Pitfall was my favorite game on the 2600. I lived it. And, on one incredible day, when I was probably 12 years old, I scored a 107,000 or so without losing a life. I must've missed a few treasures, because the game kept going and I ended up running out all 20 minutes. Mom & Dad let dinner wait an additional ten minutes or so until I was done. I even took a photo of the TV screen to send it in to the "Pitfall Harry" club ... too bad the photo didn't turn out. Man, that was a drag. But I *do* have my brother as witness. And I never even got close to that score again, unfortunately.
If everyone used XML for their formatting ...
Huh? Have you used XML? XML has very, very little to do with formatting (I suppose it depends on your implementation) and everything to do with document structure. As long as users just clickey-clickey their bold & italics, bump indents with a button, and make headlines with font changes rather than use a style consistently, this is a problem that XML won't solve. Even a 'save as XML' option. To say XML is the panacea is to not understand the problem. Even a tight XML DTD can be implemented crappily.