Doug Ewell wrote:
Douglas Otis <dotis at mail dash abuse dot org> wrote:
Word's closed code is continuously changing. Availability of this
closed application depends upon OS compatibility and version
regressions. Both are moving targets. In addition, Word formats
permit inclusion of potentially destructive scripts within highly
flexible and obfuscating structures...
I didn't hear anyone ask to make evil Word from evil Microsoft the
standard format for I-Ds and RFCs. I did hear a suggestion to enhance
xml2rfc so it can interpret the XML generated by evil Word. The
resulting code generated by xml2rfc would presumably have all of the
evilness purged.
...
Just because xml2rfc happens to use a base XML format doesn't mean it
can be easily changed to use a different XML vocabulary.
A conversion tool (reading Word, generating xml2rfc XML source) would
make more sense, IMHO. That being said, I looked at this several years
ago, and the 2003 Word XML format was a pain to process, and also lacks
much of the interesting stuff (such as blbliographical information).
BR, Julian
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