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Re: [school-discuss] LessonForge



On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Les Richardson wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> How is this going to work? Any kind of proprietary format is not going to
> be able to be converted to any format other than perhaps Ascii/UTF8.  What
> about line breaks? What about any kind of structuring markup? (ie.
> paragraph breaks, headings)
>
>
> These proprietary formats will contain _nothing_ in terms of structured
> markup. So therefore, how does one create an export format in XML when your
> data is basically a useless (in terms of structure) "blob" of text?
>
> As well, what kind of internal storage format would be used?
>
> This kind of thing raises all kinds of issues....What about ease of
> authoring? Sorry....
>
>
<snipsnip>

> Ditto. How? (Sorry to be negative...)
>

Why not join the mailing list? Better suited to a technical discussion
anyway, and such probing could help iron out details.

Matt

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