RE: XML and the launch of Chemical Markup Language

Paquin, Martin (PaquinM@novasys.qc.ca)
Fri, 6 Feb 1998 09:35:20 -0500


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Murray-Rust [SMTP:peter@ursus.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 1998 4:21 AM
To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Subject: Re: XML and the launch of Chemical Markup
Language

>I am a believer in using HTML for
>presentations (since I feel it's more flexible/portable/re-usable than
>other approaches). If other people feel the same way, perhaps we could
>create a collaborative approach to XML/HTML-slide generation?
Microsoft annouced his intention to have a XML export format for all
his office applications, including I supposed PowerPoint. Certainly a
place=20
to look.=20

The major part that is missing for conversing a graphic presentation to
XML is=20
the possibility to create graphics primitives in HTML. Other than that
with
dynamic html is possible to have presentation as good than with
conventionnnel
prsentation package.

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