Re: [xml-dev] OOXML: So what *should* happen now?

From
David Megginson <>
To
XML Developers List <>
Date
2007-09-06T14:12:22Z
ID
<>
Thread
Re: [xml-dev] OOXML: So what *should* happen now?
On 06/09/07, Jonathan Robie <> wrote:

> 4. ODF should be the ISO standard for office formats. I think that
> proponents of this view believe that ODF can represent any OOXML
> document, with modest effort to support things like spreadsheet formulas
> that are not well supported at present. (Some OOXML supporters say that
> ODF represents office documents, but OOXML represents enterprise office
> documents. The main example given to illustrate the difference seems to
> be having a representation for spreadsheet formulas - is there more to
> this, or am I missing something?)

That sounds suspiciously similar to "SGML is for the enterprise, and
XML is for the web."


All the best,


David