MS Office and XML

[Andre Garzia]

Marielle,

MS has submited the new format to ECMA to create a "open" standard,  
this is not the current format, this is an attempt to beat  
OpenDocument and the F/OSS initiatives out there. I bet they are  
putting raw binary data inside the XML, but that's just me being  
pessimistic.

Cheers
andre

On Dec 14, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Marielle Lange wrote:

> I wouldn't bet on the ASCII format. There have been talks about of  
> a binary xml format.
> <http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/13/deviant.html>
> <http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/qna/ 
> 0,289202,sid26_gci1027594,00.html>
>
>
>> The latest Office suite uses XML as the native file format.  Not  
>> sure how open and available it is, but it should ideally be  
>> writable since it's ultimately ASCII now....
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