----- Original Message ----- From: "Helmar Rudolph" <helmar@xxxxxxxxx> To: <phoenix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:25 PM Subject: [openbeos] More stuff to disagree with... > ... ;-) > > I'm in the process of completing and cleaning up both the > BeOS user survey and the BU developer survey. All that > formatting sucks, but what's even worse... if you want to > publish this on the web, it sucks even more. > > Why can't we (the BeOS community) come up with a file format Because it has already been invented... It's called XML ;) and the tool to help you is XSLT. If the Survey was stored in a XML document, you could easily export it to whatever format by writing an XSLT document, describing what the resulting document should look like when it has been processed with a XSLT Processor (such as Xalan). However - to my knowledge, only Xerces has been ported to BeOS? /Brian Matzon