[odf-discuss] OOo OOXML filters

[Sigrid Kronenberger]

Am Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:00:14 +0000
schrieb Ian Lynch <ian.lynch at zmsl.com>:

> 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

Link is (for the starting message): 
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=discuss&msgNo=58935

Link to Matthias's post: 
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=discuss&msgNo=58957

HTH

Sigrid