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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: MS filters
From:       Jaroslaw Staniek <js () iidea ! pl>
Date:       2008-03-13 21:58:16
Message-ID: 47D9A378.9020903 () iidea ! pl
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Cyrille Berger said the following, On 2008-03-13 13:56:
> On Thursday 13 March 2008, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
>>> that format is so much over-designed that it will be very hard to deliver
>>> anything working soon. It starts with the sharedstring-tables, continues
>>> with the client-server logic oox comes with (funny they put it into the
>>> format itself rather then moving it up the stack to the
>>> application-level) and all those additional "optimizations" that increase
>>> the complexity even more. Guess I am atm very depressed how bad that
>>> format is and how difficult it is to get anything working out of it that
>>> is more then translation of some tags :-/
>>> imho clearly something that can't be done within ~3 or even ~6 months (I
>>> don't talk of styles and other things here, just of not losing content
>>> during import).
>> Ouch! That sounds even worse than what I had heard before.
> 
> And now might not be a good time to start working on this. ooxml is not yet an 
> ISO standard, it might as well never become one. They might as well resubmit 
> it under the normal ISO procedure in which case ooxml will be very different 
> than it is now. Besides there are very few ooxml documents in cirulation 
> compared to doc/xls/ppt ;)

My 0.02€:

After changes forced by deposition-for-comments, Ecma (not ISO) as an editor 
of the standard draft, would turn ooxml into something seriously different 
than the format people demand here and there -- namely -- msooxml.

For example, the final ooxml would mention the embedded objects can be 
KParts-compatible (or based any other technology, e.g. Flake), and thus no 
longer directly mention MS OLE. This is only an example, you have more such 
"fixes" delivered by removing concrete information on related standards.
Do not expect MS to fix already released MSO2007 for ooxml compatibility...

So there's even more time before someone can realize whether "ooxml support" 
means "support for on of the standards" or "following the white 'msooxl' 
rabbit in rather the same way as the community has followed the old binary 
office formats" :)

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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