Invisible wrote:
> How about deliberately defining it in such a way that only Word itself 
> can really "understand" what its content means?

This is what happens when you have support for dozens of versions of a 
program in your file format. Not unlike C++.  "How about defining a 
source input format that can't be checked for syntactic correctness 
without a potentially infinite storage space?"  ;-)

> XML is no magic bullet for instant portability...

It will let you get enough of your data out that you can then import it 
into another format.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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