Re: [xml-dev] Re: [ubl-dev] Top 10 uses of XML in 2007

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

Robin Berjon wrote:

> You've probably lost information though (for some value of 
> "information"). AFAIK the MS Office binary format has stuff in it that 
> MS themselves have totally lost track of long ago.

Not a lot, actually. My experiments have found that when you compress 
the same documents in Office binary and OpenOffice XML formats, the 
end-result is that they're within a few percentage points of each other. 
Not predictably one way or the other either. That suggests that they 
have pretty close to the same information content.

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