Microsoft Office 2003 and XML

Simon St. Laurent linked a recent presentation he gave on XML in Office 11 from his Advogato journal. A couple of takeaways:

  • XSLT will become even more important.
  • Since InfoPath is not going to be part of the standard version of Office, the Open Source community and other Microsoft competitors have a huge opening to bring forth:
    1. their own schema driven editors,
    2. and lightweight schemas for describing everyday documents

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