I haven't cracked open their native format but it could be XML under the
covers. Office 2003 is like that - Word, Excel, etc - all XML.
/David.
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A proprietary open source file format is an oxymoron.
Actually, like most popular open source software (and like all good
software), the OpenOffice content is well documented and easily
accessible (published file formats, SDK, etc.). Each OpenOffice
document is stored as a zip file (in this examp
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Sent: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:40:57 -0500
Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] XML (like OpenOffice does)
> I haven't cracked open their native format but it could be XML under
> the covers. Office 2003 is like that - Word, Excel, etc - all XML.
>
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Maybe he meant HTML, which is a subset of XML.
OpenOffice does have HTML saves.
Kevin
--- John Leo Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joseph,
> Is this accurate? I would expect to be able to read
> an XML file with the
> "naked eye" so to speak, but I can't find such a
> file format in Ope
I meant XML... :-)
Joseph
Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
Maybe he meant HTML, which is a subset of XML.
OpenOffice does have HTML saves.
Kevin
--- John Leo Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joseph,
Is this accurate? I would expect to be able to read
an XML file with the
"naked eye" so to speak,
It looks like the OpenOffice XML format is on its way to becoming an
OASIS standard (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?
wg_abbrev=office)
-- Bhaskar
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