[odf-discuss] OOo OOXML filters

[Ian Lynch]

This was recently posted by Mathias Baur on the OOo Discuss list.

"Novell is working on making the XSLT transformation that Microsoft has
set up as a sourceforge project somewhat usable. We haven't seen any
results until now but my firm belief is that an XSLT transformation can
never reach a sufficient quality that comes even close to the quality of
our current filters for the binary MSOffice formats.

So we already have planned to release our own import(!) filters for
OOXML and we are already working on them. Having such import filters is
what users of OOo will demand for just to stay interoperable. But OTOH
we think that nobody needs export filters for these formats. For
exchanging documents in a format that MSOffice users can read you can
use the old binary formats.

Ciao,
Mathias

-- 
Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer"


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