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reminds me of a description of MSFT's first XML-based office file formats (not sure if its true or was a joke) but it went something like <xml> <office-propr

reminds me of a description of MSFT's first XML-based office file formats (not sure if its true or was a joke) but it went something like <xml> <office-proprietary-binary-blob> wky4b5tlwybkjbb2... </office-proprietary-binary-blob> </xml>

gleenn 6y ago
Xml is an open standard man, just pretend your Neo from the Matrix reading the screen saver
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kingaillas 6y ago
I kind of remember a massive CDATA blob... but my memory must be playing tricks on me: Wikipedia shows some sample markup of the pre-2007 Microsoft Office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats) and it doesn't look bad at all. And it seems after 2007 they switched to an ECMA standard.
- ethbr0 6y ago
  In all fairness, during the first XML migration, I'm sure internal MS folks were just as baffled at the previous format.