Things are picking up apace in 2010 and the blog is constantly nagging me for being negligent.
IGP:FLIP allows the importing and conversion to FoundationXHTML of a wide range of formats including word-processor files, spreadsheets, presentations, text and other items. The text and structure aspects of the content are imported substantially intact.What goes missing is the original style information.
We constantly get asked "Why can't IGP:FLIP import XML?" Well of course it can, but not through the general office formats importer. XML is not a format. It is an encoding standard that lets anyone use agreed vocabularies to define machine to machine data interchange. A specific XML schema or DTD is getting close to being a format, but is usually a long way from being usable except in an opaque XML editing or processing environment.
