[odf-discuss] OOo OOXML filters

[Ian Lynch]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 13:47 -0500, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> 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?

Its in a thread called  Open Office XML on discuss at openoffice.org


> 
> Thanks
> Carlos
> 
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