On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:29 +0800, Harish Pillay wrote: > Hi. I am trying to ascertain the issues behind oo.o as it stands > today in not having support for the m$ docx, xlsx and pptx formats. > It is not important at all for me to have oo.o support those, but > Novell claims to have done the work to make it happen, but, from my > perspective, so long as upstream does not accept it, I will not use a > forked code base.
Novell and Sun have been working together to provide support for these file formats. The work is still ongoing (currently in the xmlfilter04 workspace) but is definitely schedule to be integrated into an OOo release. What Novell has done previously is to ship the odf-converter, which is Microsoft sponsored OOXML to ODF conversion filter, written in XSLT and C#, as a temporary solution. Also Novell has been shipping pre-release of the code jointly developed with Sun in their 2.4 branch. Hope that clarifies your misunderstanding of the situation. Hub --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
