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Story: Google: OOXML 'insufficient and unnecessary'

Posted by: Goldie Simmons (Friday 29 February 2008, 12:08 AM)

Questions for the community

[quote] Here an example of why OOo does not comply with ODF spec: link [/quote]

First off, I'm no expert on document formats and not qualified to debate their development. I'm pretty sure that most mathematicians like TEX for displaying mathematical formulas. That would be my choice, but I guess it's not an ISO standard.

Looks to me like the example you give demonstrates an error in how OpenOffice.org displays the MathML given a particular set of circumstances. Like you said, the standard is relatively new, there's bound to be kinks. For the life of me, I can't see how this equates to “ OOo does not comply with the ODF specification”. This seems more akin to a software bug to me.

Also, this seems like a whole world of difference from producing documents which contain many elements not specified in OOXML (EMCA 376), such as binary code, macros, OLE objects, ActiveX, DRM, SharePoint metadata and other technology, proprietary or otherwise. I'm pretty sure Microsoft Office 2007 uses some are all of these features.

So I'm wondering what happens if I use one or more of these features and save the file in the *default format*. What the heck gets saved? OOXML (EMCA 376), according to Albert. How can this be if the spec doesn't mention em? What happens if another application sends me an OOXML (EMCA 376) compliant file and I make edits to it? Will it get saved in the same format?

Seems I'm not the only one confused, even amongst the semi-experts in our community. Maybe we can get some clarification from a neutral party?

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