[odf-discuss] ODF as a memory dump of OOo internals

[Lars D. Noodén]

Last month Håkon Wium Lie, of Opera asserted in a CNet article that 
"ODF is an XML-based dump of the internal data structures of OpenOffice"
 	http://news.com.com/Microsofts+standards+choice/2010-1013_3-6161285.html

There are flaws with OpenDocument, even after recent improvements for 
accessibility, but I suspect that being an XML-based dump of the internal 
data structures of OpenOffice is not one of them.  To my relatively 
uneducated eye, the spec did not seem to fit that description when I 
examined it last year.

I am not deeply familiar with either OOo nor ODF to publicly rebut a 
celebrity like Håkon.  However, I would like to know where I should be 
looking to find information which I could use to urge him to reconsider 
what appears to be a misstatement.

-Lars

Lars Noodén
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