Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 5:49:45 AM, Tony wrote: TC> The outlay isn't financial it's time spent learning the standards, TC> namely XML, XSLT and CSS/HTML. XSLT is the most difficult of these TC> but by no means the proverbial rocket science. I'd rate it about TC> 60% the difficulty of VBA. Time = money. Who pays for the training/learning time ? What is the payback time ? Casual users of Word, such as programmers, managers and admin staff, struggle with the concept of paragraph and character styles. How do you propose to motivate this group of people to learn and use XML/XSLT ? Mike ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelist.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************