Scott Dunn wrote: > Hi, > > > > After reading this article: > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061208135621706, > > I'm requesting that you do not accept code for the Open Office XML format >>from Microsoft. If Novell wants to offer that in their own version, that is > fine. But everyone else is going to be locked in to the Microsoft format if > they use this format in their documents.
Novell is working on making the XSLT transformation that Microsoft has set up as a sourceforge project somewhat usable. We haven't seen any results until now but my firm belief is that an XSLT transformation can never reach a sufficient quality that comes even close to the quality of our current filters for the binary MSOffice formats. So we already have planned to release our own import(!) filters for OOXML and we are already working on them. Having such import filters is what users of OOo will demand for just to stay interoperable. But OTOH we think that nobody needs export filters for these formats. For exchanging documents in a format that MSOffice users can read you can use the old binary formats. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
