Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
We can now argue why do we have 2 standards and can discuss the pros and cons. But does it help? I don't think so and I believe we have to live with the current situation.
Sure. And we are quite used to useless duplication anyway...
That is the reason why we will start to investigate in a better OOXML support for AOO and you will probably notice some more activity in the future going in this direction.
Excellent. A better Microsoft compatibility is what our users set as #1 priority in the user survey and improving OOXML import (and export!) is surely part of that.
For the import we are thinking about a bigger change to consolidate 3 different approaches in 3 applications that we have today and we plan to start a new framework.
Not entering in the merit of technical decisions, of course you know that Apache POI exists and has read/write support for OOXML files via API. Their expertise, or even their code, might be useful. http://poi.apache.org
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