Followup to Gripe 2 (PowerPoint & XML)

Stephane I love your feedback, keep dishing it! :-) (See the comments to my last post to see Stephane's comment).

Ok well, I partially agree with you. In the HTML I do see namespaces, pockets of XML and some files that are XML files. So for me to have said no XML at all was not totally accurate and fair.

But this isn't true xml, it's more like XML Data Islands. For example, the following text appears in one of the HTML files created:

<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<link rel=File-List href="Research%20-%20OSN302_files/filelist.xml">

The first thing you will notice is that these files are not well-formed XML as they do not end with a closing tag. So can I load this file into XMLDocument? Can I parse with a standard XSLT parser? Also is there a published schema that I can validate against? How can I put my own customer defined schema into this to mark regions as data as I can in Word and Excel?

I will give you this, the autogenerated scenario is possible. I compliment the PowerPoint team on having clean HTML. However, it's all presentation and it's a merging of HTML and XML.

Chris

P.S. Stephane, do you work for MS? If so what do you do?