From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Saving markup formats Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:55:42 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87myyygset.fsf@jurta.org> References: <871wgi9jzb.fsf@jidanni.org> <87odjlwpu1.fsf@jurta.org> <87ir9r1m99.fsf@jurta.org> <87myz2i9tj.fsf@jurta.org> <87r6ocx0tk.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <87vedmtnsz.fsf@jurta.org> <87vedmnvaf.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182117758 19220 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2007 22:02:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:02:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Oliver Scholz , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nic James Ferrier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 18 00:02:36 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 1I02pQ-0001PX-4R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:02:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I02pP-0002Ch-Rg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:02:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I02pM-0002CF-5G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:02:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I02pK-0002Bv-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I02pK-0002Bs-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:02:30 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I02pJ-0001Pa-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:02:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I02pH-0008S7-4i; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:02:27 +0300 In-Reply-To: <87vedmnvaf.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> (Nic James Ferrier's message of "Sun\, 17 Jun 2007 22\:08\:40 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 7b6940144bc5d56bdacd12344196c2df X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1148 [June 14 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:73181 Archived-At: > I certainly don't care about wysiwyg. I'd just like to have good > editing support for documents written in word or openoffice. If you don't need WYSIWYG, you can edit them just visiting files in Emacs in their source format. OpenOffice has two XML formats .odt and .sxw, and AbiWord has the format .abw which is XML as well. How else do you want to edit these documents without WYSIWYG? > A good embedded XML parser would be needed. I've thought about taking > time out to add libxml2 support natively to emacs. That would do the > job very well. Emacs already has a XML parser (`xml-parse-file' in xml.el), so this is not a problem. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/