To be clear, I can put a complete Word Document (as a binary blob) inside of an ODF Text document too. I just don't know if that particular avenue is what was taken as a smoking gun about OOXML or not. I can put a complete ODF Text document (as a binary blob) inside of an OOXML .docx too.
The fact that this is possible is no blemish on either of the ODF and OOXML specifications. It is not something anyone makes ridiculous practice of. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 17:50 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice lost again 6000 users (was: Improved OOXML support?) <orcnote> below. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak [mailto:and...@pitonyak.org] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 17:27 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Spam (9.566):Re: OpenOffice lost again 6000 users (was: Improved OOXML support?) On 10/24/2014 11:42 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > <orcnote> below. > > -----Original Message----- > 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?) > > [ ... ] > 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. > [ ... ] More specifically, I was under the impression that you could include a binary blob of say a doc file. <orcnote> More specifically, can you point me to an authoritative source For this claim? I don't want to take a search of the OOXML specification without some specific details. </orcnote> -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
