From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 10 20:12:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359011591E for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 20:12:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00963; Mon, 10 May 1999 20:10:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199905110310.UAA00963@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chuck Robey Cc: Bob Willcox , Alex Zepeda , hackers list Subject: Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 22:00:48 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 20:10:32 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, xls and xml are markup languages which means you need an "engine" to render -- they do solve very nicely the document construct , or grammar and syntax. It would be great to have a word processing system based upon XML, XSL and a low level api (DOM) to manipulate documents 8) Cheers > I'm starting to investigate xsl (although I haven't time enough for it > yet). It begins to look *extremely* promising. If you know much about > formatting languages like troff or TeX, you might want to see xlm, DOM > and xsl. Take a look at the IBM web site. > > Heck, that's a good excuse to go take a look at one of the most dynamic > programming web sites out there. Take a look at the IBM web site, most > especially if you like java or xml or parsers, or .... IBM is diving > into open source, feet first! > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) > (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message