Thanks Andrea :)
It is confusing indeed. And to my embarrassment, I only skimmed the precis.
Note that my understanding here was that the sample/documents are mostly
aimed at new/casual users (who may well not know about the finer points)
and would probably find the description docx more recognisable than ooxml.
But looking at the other thread, samples/documents now seems to be moving
towards being a developer stash of useful edge cases.
In which case our tree probably needs yet another split, one for users to
allow them to just try out Corinthia with 1-2 simple test cases of the
supported formats that convert 1-1 into each other, and another tree for
devs who are more interested in a collection of edge cases than a simple
sample and stuff like bindings.
Maybe what we need is:
$ tree
.
└── samples
├── dev
│ ├── code
│ │ └── bindings
│ └── documents
│ ├── html
│ ├── odt
│ ├── ooxml
│ └── tex
└── user
├── docx
├── html
├── latex
└── odf
where I am assuming that the user has no requirements for code samples.
G
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>
wrote:
> Gabriela Gibson wrote:
>
>> The thing is though, when you do a web search for ooxml, the top link (at
>> least in Ireland) is this:
>> "
>> Office Open XML (OOXML) is an XML-based file format used for representing
>> word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. It is
>> conceptually similar to ODF in many respects, though a lot of the details
>> differ. ...
>> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
>> So, by that definition, docx is not ooxml
>>
>
> Why? Are you falling into the usual trap of confusing "Office Open XML"
> and "Open Office XML"? Yes, .docx is OOXML (see below for a clarification)
> and everything you quoted seems correct. While the page you cite comes from
> the OpenOffice wiki, the page describes the Microsoft Word 2007 (and later)
> format.
>
> Now, this is a simplification, since OOXML is the standard (the theory)
> while the actual implementation (i.e., the thing that Microsoft Word writes
> in the .docx file) has slight deviations from the standard depending on the
> Microsoft Word version and settings. But, to a large degree of
> approximation, .docx files are OOXML files and are completely different
> from "OpenOffice" (i.e., ODF) files, while both formats are XML-based.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
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