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26 Nov 05 |
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Format comparison between ODF and MS XML.
There has been a lot of attention to the legal encumbrances in
Microsoft’s new MS XML format. In this article we’ll look at
the technical side, and try to show you how the design of these formats
affect interoperability. After all, that is the purpose of open standards.
OpenDocument benefits from 5 years of development involving many experts
from diverse backgrounds (Boeing, National Archives of Australia, Society
for Biblical literature, etc.). It was written with the explicit purpose of
being interoperable across different platforms. In contrast, MS XML has not
gone through a peer-review process, and was written with only one product
in mind. This difference shows in the design of the formats.
Groklaw
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