From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dave Pawson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Saving markup formats Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:18:00 +0100 Message-ID: <711a73df0706190018r5fdaf92aw2176b9178e038d32@mail.gmail.com> References: <871wgi9jzb.fsf@jidanni.org> <87sl8qnrme.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <4675B791.6060006@gmail.com> <87ps3unqpf.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <4675BD78.5010508@gmail.com> <87hcp6nphl.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <4675C7D6.4010604@gmail.com> <878xahofj7.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87sl8poszz.fsf@jurta.org> <878xagkj1n.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182237496 32766 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 07:18:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:18:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Nic James Ferrier" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 09:18:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0Xyb-0000y8-9p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:18:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0Xya-0001O4-QE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:18:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0XyX-0001N8-TH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0XyV-0001MW-IK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0XyV-0001MQ-6L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.180]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0XyU-0006Xa-S4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so2489939wah for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:18:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lIMSNOXKQOSgaD6S2Yl5mNt26v5pb4rdT9glIqcpsIuig45CXqzk9OUl/GLJhv8UPN4KdWskaSDLAzSEX3Cme/9hEk6YLf3N6grilrmhl1qm/4W/QeYaZ3QFfZ5aez/EVqkfeDicTLc9b8Re0ah9yTmWD3NbQTdTGYHWJJzvckk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=upg26/eiDmgDfT/sA0kS/Rc3CsmWk90zSvMNE9WiBRdtamjpohAgMnEyRWlqrNjB4BfyDIHbg54R6lY9yVB9P1AbIsa6tH3RLs8X+tV7azZtMgTNVTtFNbKwNVRWN05vSiu6QTLrz9QsWjzv8VNu53SXd/TofDGbHD+U+85DsFw= Original-Received: by 10.114.196.1 with SMTP id t1mr7097165waf.1182237480680; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.109.14 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:18:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <878xagkj1n.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73279 Archived-At: On 18/06/07, Nic James Ferrier wrote: > > - editing raw XML files (e.g. with the help of nxml); > > - editing DOM trees (like in graphical XML editors: expand/collapse > > subtrees, add/delete a node, change its attributes); > > - editing on the visual representation of the XML file (WYSIWYG). > > > > Which one from these you are talking about? > > Not one of those. > For example, here's a use case. > I would like to be able to open the word file directly in Emacs and > see some view of it. It doesn't matter if it's structural rather than > WYSIWYG but I don't want to look at Word XML thanks... it's awful. > I agree it's an aweful form of XML, and possibly that's the reason not to choose to operate on it? Why not use one of the many CV XML formats around, then transform from that into Office XML? That way emacs is still the tool of choice, and you can go to html and pdf formats for the users that still want a sensible format. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk