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Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-JAN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1097 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Stirring the pot: XML enablement: viewed 50,000 times by XML-J readers around the world, XML-J's news item covering Office 11 sparked heated discussion in the days following its original publication. Here's a sampling of what readers posting to the XML-J Web site had to say ... (Reader Feedback).(Letter to the Editor)

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So what happens?

So what happens when someone wants to e-mail an XML-enabled Word document.... Does it somehow become encrypted on its way out of the database, remain scrambled on its way over the Internet, and reassemble itself into nice XML once it arrives on the recipient's computer? Doesn't sound like XML to me?!

--Tony Weston

Okay, so it'll be harder

Okay, so it'll be harder to mount a Windows partition effectively, but this doesn't affect transmission of documents, especially if they're stored in an XML format. As for me, I think it's more valuable to have files that I can read outside of their native filesystem than to have a readable filesystem filled with unreadable files.

It will indeed be harder

It' will indeed be harder to mount the partition. It may also be harder to use that XML data, since what we may be talking about is XML encapsulation of binary, proprietary, encrypted file formats. Don't necessarily think you're going to...

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