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