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if you'd argued that the Docx format is unecessarily verbose, well that's a possibility (Although the problem is that MS are dealing with 30 years of legacy her
by raesene9 9y ago
if you'd argued that the Docx format is unecessarily verbose, well that's a possibility (Although the problem is that MS are dealing with 30 years of legacy here, it's not a simple task. One of Word's better achievements is that I can generally open 20+ year old documents and they'll render just like they did back when they were created)
but to say that .docx is a binary file format, nope, it's a zipped text file format. If you parse docx you unzip and use an XML parser, you don't use a binary parser.
.doc was a binary format, but that's not been a default file format for Word in the last 15 years.