Is Word Ready for XML Primetime?
August 10, 2004
I have a recent article in Transform magazine that looks at Word 2003 and how many organizations are using its XML capabilities. To quote briefly from the article:
With the release of Office 2003 last year, much was made of the XML capabilities built into Word, the ubiquitous word processing tool from Microsoft. Word 2003 supports XML in two ways: it lets users to save documents to a Microsoft-specific XML format called WordProcessingML, and also enables users to structure documents according to valid XML schema.
Ten months after its release, Word 2003 is not yet commonly used for XML authoring on its own, but it has given rise to a cottage industry of XML editing add-ons.
Posted by Bill Trippe at August 10, 2004 4:18 PM
