On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:47:01AM -0700, Lucas Vogel wrote: > i am going through an XML tutorial, and it's talking about XML Schemas vs. > DTD's. Is an XML Schema a MS "feature" or is it a new standard to eventually > replace the DTD? Not that I'm complaining, because I can see a whole lot of > usefulness for the schema... Schema is a generic term; a DTD is a kind of schema, and other(s?) have been proposed. I think MS and the W3C are on friendlier terms these days; maybe their "assimilate and bastardize" days are finally over. (Nah...) I think there is an open process to develop an alternative schema format; MS hasn't shown any inclination to try and leapfrog with their own yet. But I was reading about WebDAV the other day, and there was mention that Office 2000 includes this feature - you can save documents to any DAV-compliant server (apparently including Apache, since theirs was the first implementation). And I think either they are already using XML, or plan to. I just hope it doesn't look like ;js$&#$567fd456SFSDfgSgf... I've got Office 2000 at work and .docs still look like binary gook to me, no XML tags either. But there is a "web folder" feature in the save dialog; I suppose it could use a different format for saving there, but I doubt it. -- _______ Shawn T. Rutledge / KB7PWD ecloud@bigfoot.com (_ | |_) http://www.bigfoot.com/~ecloud kb7pwd@kb7pwd.ampr.org __) | | \________________________________________________________________ Get money for spare CPU cycles at http://www.ProcessTree.com/?sponsor=5903