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Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw)Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw)Posted Nov 28, 2005 12:31 UTC (Mon) by diegor (subscriber, #1967)In reply to: Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw) by ballombe Parent article: Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw)
I disagree. Interoperability means that you don't need to much effort to produce a program that can read the format. SGML was a standard meant to introduce interoperability between different program, but failed even if the standard was very precise.
The problem was that the standard was so complex, that was very hard to find a real compliant implementation. Having a precise standard is required, but not sufficient, to have interoperability.
A simple human understandable format means a more easy to write and to debug implementation, and eventually more compliant implementations.
(Sorry for my bad language, I hope was understandable enough)
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