Good article but pity it only talks about word processing
Posted Nov 29, 2005 21:24 UTC (Tue) by
khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Good article but pity it only talks about word processing by koriordan
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Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw)
It would be nice if they did another article for spreadsheets though. After hearing how the Gnumeric team aren't at all impressed with ODS (and I'd trust them to know what they're talking about), I'd be very interesting to hear how it compares with other XML spreadsheet formats.
Have you actually seen reasons why Gnumeric team was not impressed ? ODS was not in fault - lack of information needed to keep formulas compatible was a problem. And this was deliberately not included in ODF: it'll require separate standard of roughly the same size as ODF! I'm pretty sure Microsoft's format does not include this information as well...
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