On 10/24/2014 11:42 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
<orcnote> below.
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From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak [mailto:and...@pitonyak.org]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 06:18
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: OpenOffice lost again 6000 users (was: Improved OOXML support?)
On 10/24/2014 01:54 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote:
But where is the problem? Either OOXML *is* ISO standard or is not
ISO-standard. If the problem is however that MS is 'meddling' in the
standard, then it is a political issue that requires policy responses
- not a question of software development.
I am not overly informed on this, but, I think that the primary
complaint was that the OOXML ISO standard supports storing proprietary
binary blobs that are not part of the standard as aprt of the document.
<orcnote>
This was and is a red herring. The ODF specification is just as
permissive in this regard. For example, there is no specification
on the binary formats of images that are incorporated in ODF packages
by our favorite ODF-supporting software. Also, the allowance of OLE
objects opens a very wide door in ODF that is exploited by the
prominent implementations.
What would be more interesting is to see what either specification
says about how such material is identified so implementations can
determine what is present.
It would also be interesting to know how well implementations identify
what cases of this that are supported, somewhere that the information
is readily available for the information of non-implementers.
</orcnote>
More specifically, I was under the impression that you could include a
binary blob of say a doc file.
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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
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