Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Dec 2006 20:54 UTC
Microsoft has hit back at critics, including IBM, which voted against approving the company's Office OpenXML format as an Ecma standard, claiming it is nothing more than a vendor-dictated specification that documents proprietary products via XML. Ecma International announced the approval of the new standard Dec. 6 following a meeting of its general assembly and said it will begin the fast track process for adoption of the Office OpenXML formats as an ISO international standard in January 2007.
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RE[6]: ODF is worse than I thought!
by n4cer on Sat 9th Dec 2006 07:49
in reply to "RE[5]: ODF is worse than I thought!"
Member since:2005-07-06
I mean the many samples available from or linked from sites like
http://openxmldeveloper.org/default.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/ (use the tags for Word, Excel, etc.)
As for optimization, the format is readable enough, and isn't as big a concern as storage and access performance. Since most people are going to be using tools to access the format and not manually cracking open and parsing it themselves, I'd rather have a format that is efficient and has access times comparable to the binary formats than one that is much slower.
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/search.aspx?q=optimize&p=1
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2005-07-06
You mean the trivial samples with little formatting and a jpeg?
OOXML has lots of places in the spec where it is little more than fields from a C struct with xml tags around it. Oh gee wiz, that XML around those hex values sure are helpful! This is even more so since the tags themselves are unreadable. OOXML a poster child for premature optimization. Leave it to MS to miss the point of XML.