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It's still worse than ODT (which itself isn't exactly pretty), for no good reason. That's sad.
by lucian1900 14y ago
It's still worse than ODT (which itself isn't exactly pretty), for no good reason. That's sad.
- SideburnsOfDoom 14y agoODT is also XML-based, to Docx's problems compared to ODT can't be blamed on XML.
- lucian1900 14y agoI never said it has anything to do with XML. OOXML is extremely complex for little reason. Even though it is also quite complex, ODT is much, much simpler.
- SideburnsOfDoom 14y agoI'm not disagreeing with you; but the context is mostly about the use of XML.
- makomk 14y agoThere are actually reasons for some of OOXML's weirdness, just not good ones. For instance, it appears the reason why OOXML is pretty much the only XML-based document format which doesn't use a mixed content model is because there's a huge amount of prior art that'd have made it impossible to patent if they had. (Microsoft tried anyway though.)