This also looks intresting: XML for Visio Scenarios [MSDN by Stapler]
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The MSDN article about how to develop Simple Smart Tags [MSDN by Stapler]
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As usual... for lee: :)This Modern World. What oil crisis? It's just our capitalist system operating at peak efficiency! [Salon.com]
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This is why software monopolies suck. Microsoft has the power to alter our content. This is unacceptable. I've had so many MS people want to debate this with me. They play the usual tricks, try to walk me around the trap door, but it's totally impossible to miss. Sanford, quoted above, states the problem quite clearly. Microsoft thinks they can improve my writing. This makes me want to get a gun and go to war.

Sigh... It think it's best that we look at smart tags in parts. Everyone is so pigeonholed in one part of smarttag's that they can't weight the potential of abuse with the benifits.
SmartTags are based on two peices (if they are simular to the office ones) A recogniser and actionprovider. The Recogniser either looks for keywords, or has something more complex and code driven. Once it recognizes something it gives it tags it with what it is. The actionproviders when the see the tags will associate a multidementional hyperlink to the word. It is possible to trigger smart tags without the recogniser if the tags for the action are already present. Some of these tags would come from office documents or emails, so that one can use a generated smart tag fom office without owning office. Let's look at an example: The most classic one would be finding an address in a document. A few good actions for the smart tag would be "map this", "driving directions", "add to address book". Prehaps there is an email address without a mailto:, then the smarttag would give you a mailto:, and add to address book, etc.

oh ... and dave, if you ever read me: Go to war with this!

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