Jon Udell: Brian Jones on Office XML

The Discussion

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  Very Cool. On ward!
  

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  One small criticism of this is that it seems more of the converstation is Jon explaining things and Brian agreeing w/ him. I thought Brian was supposed to be the "expert" here. Otherwise I loved this podcast as well.

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  Jon's remark about "Beatles fame" puts an immediate spanner in the works, compounded by XML Brian's lack of WTF (or maybe he was being polite). Rolling Stones guys.....
  
  Now I have that off my chest I can listen to the rest of the podcast.

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  "Rolling Stones guys....."
  
  Ouch. Now there's a category slip! I'm always fascinated by those. In this case it went like so, I think:
  
  Rolling Stones -> Brian Jones -> Brian Epstein -> Beatles
  
  Clearly we've both spent too much time in XML-land...
  
  
  

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  That's great, I didn't even notice. I've had folks say it to me enough times that I just assumed you'd said the Rolling Stones.

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  Since you, Jon, are actually a writer that does understand the power of XML, your valuable commentary on these two items would be greatly appreciated:

  “CleanXHTML for Microsoft Office Word 2003″
  http://songhaysystem.com/document.php?doc=40

  “DocBook XSL: a Complete Guide, Open XML XSL: an Incomplete Guide”
  http://www.kintespace.com/rasxlog/?p=542