From koffice-devel  Sun Feb 10 20:08:04 2002
From: shaheed <srhaque () iee ! org>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:08:04 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Question about your KPresenter's review
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On Sunday 10 February 2002 04:26, Ryan Cumming wrote:
> XML is an open file format in the same way that binary is an open file
> format.

Ryan,

Even without the DTDs (which as has been pointed out, KOffice does provide), 
any half-reasonable XML tag+attribute naming will give you some level of 
documentation on the semantics and structure of a document. This is certainly 
not the case with binary file formats.

Besides, one important point is that in a world of imperfect documentation, 
one can always resort to the source for open code for how some part of the 
file format is used. Try that on Microsoft Word.

Shaheed (still trying to understand the MS Office file formats)
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