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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
From:       "John McCabe-Dansted" <gmatht () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-07-28 5:10:10
Message-ID: fd87b6160807272210i321d141s6ad259baba38d3b0 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru <manveru@manveru.pl> wrote:
> To the discussion about data format preference:
>
> I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data
> formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost
> nobody is remeber about. How many LyX user are working in large team
> projects? How often they have to merge text files from different branches?
> Have you ever merge XML? I tried - it is horrible work.

I don't see why it would be harder if we "just replace \begin...\end
with <>...</>".

> I think LyX cannot exist with XML data format without build-in document
> merge functionality.

This would be nice in any case.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia
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