Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

Hi Peter,

I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion.

You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format???

I don't really see any good reason for doing such a completely strategically
wrong decision.

Cheers!

Jaime

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 16:36, Peter Jentsch <pjotr@guineapics.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently investigating a bug with the Excel 2003 import filter
> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35543). Looking closer at
> the filter and how much work needed to be done to improve it, and
> considering the fact that Office 2003 ML has been superseeded by OOXML,
> fixing that bug feels like flogging a dead horse.
>
> I'd rather suggest to drop Office 2003 support in LibO altogether and
> instead focus on improving OOXML and HTML import/export.
>
> For anybody with a large library of Office 2003 XML documents not wanting
> to upgrade to MS Office 2007/2010, Microsoft offers a compatibility pack
> that allows to open and save OOXML from MS Office 2003.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Peter
>
>
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