I found about 3 good looking FSM compilers using "state machine compiler" as
search criteria in Google. One of them is a sourceforge effort, and I would
suggest hooking into that effort if going to do anything serious.

>XML = "Extensible Markup Language", like HTML except you can
>define your own tags. For example OpenOffice uses XML as its
>document format, which is cool because it a) has an open
>document format specification so you can work with it, and
>b) you can use XML tools to work with it.

<grin> when I first read this bit, I read it as "Microsoft Office" instead
of "Openoffice", and was going to comment on the M$O bit. It would seem that
the possibility is Microsoft Office will be using "Microsoft XML" the way
Frontpage generates "Microsoft HTML" and not be standard to anyone else. Now
looking at your comment as being Openoffice it probably is not a problem.

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