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Subject:Any comments on Word 2007? (Take II) From:Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, Barry Campbell <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:13:59 -0500
Barry Campbell noted: <<there looks to be much better XML support
than in Word 2003, though that is a feature that is probably of most
interest to developers, and not most tech writers, at this time.>>
It's not really XML if it doesn't come with and use a DTD. Does Word
2007 actually make you adhere to a DTD, and can it validate a
document against a DTD? If so, then it's a useful XML implementation.
If Word 2007 only saves a document using HTML tags, it's not really
XML other than in the loosest possible sense.
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