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MS Office XML format not so clear

Yesterday, in a meeting at school, I could clearly see what could prevent us to consider MS Office XML file as open.

There is a processing directive at the beginning of the Word document saying: "it's a word document". This could be interpreted by the XML parser to do what it want's wihtout we know it.
To our surprise, there are some XML namespaces where the URN is no. This means obviously that the format is not fully known by a customer.

I have an answer now for people saying me that MS Office XML is open... XML doesn't necessary mean open !

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Posted by Cedric Bosdonnat @ 11/08/2005 08:38 PM. - Categories: openoffice - 0 comments

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