Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Do not support writing to OOXML format

On 1/3/2011 3:06 AM, Davide Dozza wrote:
> Il 02/01/2011 20:41, Charles-H. Schulz ha scritto:
> [...]
>
> > inconsistencies. However, it's fortunately or unfortunately, should not be a
> > problem: OOo&  LibO implement the existing and used version of MS
> > *proprietary formats* used in MS Office 2007 and 2010 that are called OOXML.
> > They're not exactly the ISO standard, far from that; feel free to call them
> > transitional if you wish, but it's very much of a grey area and I just call
> > them MS propietary formats. So what LibO does is to offer convenience to its
> This is the point. MS Office 2007 and 2010 doesn't implement ISO/IEC
> 29300 also called OOXML.
>
> Please change the subject because it's completely messing. Call simply
> MS XML proprietary formats.
>
> Davide

They don't implement the "Strict" version -- but I think we'd have a hard time arguing that they 
don't implement the "Transitional" version that must also be considered standard, it's documented in 
that specification, and MS wrote it to cover themselves. If we called these formats proprietary, we 
could get into real trouble.

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