[odf-discuss] News on MS pluggin

[Thomas Zander]

On Sunday 15 October 2006 23:57, marbux wrote:
> To this layman without access to the code, it would seem to make most sense
> were OOXML written and read from the same interfaces in the apps that the
> apps use to read and write the binary formats. But my understanding is
> otherwise, that a conversion to and from the binary formats is involved.

A strangly relevant blog from Rob Weir just came to my attention and it goes 
into how MOOX uses bitfields in the fileformat.
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/10/bit-about-bit-with-bits.html

This reads to me that the xml really is just the binary format but with in an 
XML fileformat.

The question if MS converts to a binary format on loading, or not is not that 
relevant (although it would explain a thing or two) really, as the simple 
convertion from moox-to-odf has problems exactly because of such definitions 
in the format.
As Marbux indeed wrote a couple of mails back.
-- 
Thomas Zander
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