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

[Thomas Butter]

On Mo, 2007-03-12 at 10:56 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> 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.

At least Michael Brauer it isn't a representation of internal structures
of OOo:

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_is_designed_for_the

"And what are the consequences of our decision for us, the
OpenOffice.org developers? We initially had some more work. But because
ODF abstracts from OpenOffice.org's internal models we now can change
these models without having to care about the file format. We can, for
instance, replace implementations or merge implementations where we
still have multiple ones due to legacy reasons. In short, keeping the
OpenOffice.org code up to date has become much easier. Obviously, not
only we ourselves benefit from this, but the OpenOffice.org users, too."

Regards,
Thomas