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Story: Google: OOXML 'insufficient and unnecessary'

Posted by: Albert (Wednesday 27 February 2008, 7:21 PM)

Features not in ODF

Just to name a few:
* ODF does not allow for compatibility with existing office binary files so that you cannot faithfully convert those to ODF files
* ODF does not have the easy integration of custom (business) data that OOXML provides
* ODF does not have performance enhancements to allow for fast processing of for instance large spreadsheets
* ODF does not allow integration of Math and Office tags which OOXML does. for istance OOXML can track revision changes in math formulas
* ODF has much more limited grafical support than OOXML
* OOXML package files contains relationship information which show all interpackage and external dependencies. If you want to change an URL in an OOXML file you need only change the relationship information and not scan the entire file to look for all places the URL might be (as you would in ODF).

And there are a lot lot more, but you would need a real expert for that

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