Charles de Miramon wrote: >> > Xml is slow to parse, the text is buried in very noisy formatting > information and is difficult to hack. In my opinion, history has proved it > is not adapted for wordprocessors. > Interesting blog measuring the performance impact when MsWord switched to an xml format.
http://www.oooninja.com/2008/07/benchmarking-microsoft-word-95-2007.html -- http://www.kde-france.org