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Subject: Re: [odf-adoption] Which ODF are we talking about?
Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: > According to this statement by Microsoft, their goal was not to create > a file format that can easily supported by other applications or other > vendors. They mainly focussed on their own advantages. Thus, the > vendor independence that you ask for will not be encouraged by > Microsoft's file format. It should be pointed out that Brian Jones has never (to my knowledge) actually given an example of something that MS XML can do but OpenDocument cannot. > Sure, other vendors can support Microsoft's file format anyway, but > at a much higher cost and with a lot more technical difficulties. Some friends and I wrote a semi-technical comparison between OpenDocument and MS XML. http://opendocumentfellowship.org/Articles/FormatODFVsMSXML I say semi-technical because you don't need to know XML, but you should at least know the basics of HTML to follow it. Cheers, Daniel. -- /\/`) http://opendocumentfellowship.org /\/_/ /\/_/ A life? Sounds great! \/_/ Do you know where I could download one? /
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