Re: [odf-adoption] Which ODF are we talking about?

[Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera@zmsl.com>]

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.
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