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

In my opinion Must, Should, Could, Completely Irrelevant:

- *Must*: RTF
- *Must*: MS Office 97/2000/XP Binary
- *Completely Irrelevant*: MS Office 2003 XML
- *Should*: OOXML ECMA-376 / ISO/IEC 29500 Transitional
- *Must*: OOXML  ISO/IEC 29500 Strict

Cheers!

Jaime

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 09:13, Peter Jentsch <pjotr@guineapics.de> wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:23:01 +0100, Jaime R. Garza wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I think I left out some important detail to at least make the question not
> look completely braindead:
>
> LibO AFAIK currently supports at least 4 different MS file interchange
> formats:
>
> - RTF
> - MS Office 97/2000/XP Binary
> - MS Office 2003 XML
> - OO XML
>
> Each format is supported using different technological approaches, and
> although my knowledge of all of them is very superficial, I suppose it's
> quite an effort to maintain all of them.
>
> Looking at the implementation of the Excel 2003 XML import filter showed
> that it is very unlikely somebody ever has been able to import
> spreadsheets larger than a couple of hundred rows using that filter.
> (looking at the Word 2003 ML import and export filters while porting them
> to use a different XSLT processor showed that they too are broken in some
> respect in both OOo and LibO).
>
> Which made me wonder if that particular format is in very wide use. I
> googled for it, but found no information on how widespread Office 2003 XML
> is in use currently, but figured that Microsoft offers compatibility packs
> for Office 2003 to support OOXML, which superceded Office 2003 XML.
>
> The technological basis of the OOXML import and export filters looks far
> more promising than that of the Office 2003 XMLs filter - - - thus my
> question.
>
> To make the question look even less threatening: I'm absolutely not in the
> position to make a decision about further supporting Office 2003 XML, I'm
> just very curious to find out how dearly it is needed (actually I'm asking
> this to get an indication on how to fix the problem with the Excel 2003
> import filter: improve the Office 2003 filters to not hang indefinitely
> when importing larger files, or just make it possible to abort a running
> import).
>
> So... cheers, and thanks for the feedback :-)
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:23:01 +0100, Jaime R. Garza wrote:
>
> > 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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