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You must do some research on how complex OOXML is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML .Initially there wa
by socratees 17y ago
You must do some research on how complex OOXML is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML .Initially there was a huge opposition in making OOXML a open standard, but eventually Microsoft succeeded in pushing the standard. Ever wondered why a empty word document's size is ~34 KB?
- daeken 17y agoI'm not arguing that it isn't complex, I'm arguing that the feature-set of Word has nothing to do with the complexity of the file format by necessity. His assertion that the feature-set of Word is what makes it complex is simply foolish.
- jballanc 17y agoIt's true that any arbitrary file format's complexity doesn't necessarily have to be tied to the feature set of the authoring tool (e.g. LaTeX), but in this case much of the extraneous complexity of OOXML is tied to Word's feature set. In particular, the need for backward compatibility with features from previous versions of Word make this format more complex than it needs to be, given the current feature set.