[odf-discuss] OOo OOXML filters

[Carlos Moffat]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 18:48 +0000, Ian Lynch wrote:
> 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"
> 
> 
> Ian

This looks like a lot of duplicate work. Could you post the link to the
thread where this discussion is happening?

Thanks
Carlos