On Saturday 03 July 2010 14:55:43 Yohan Pereira wrote:
btw, one of the things I want to talk about is open standards - I wanted to create a doc file and an odt file, open both in a text editor and show that the doc file is full of binary junk, whereas the odt file is in xml format - but I find that when I did it, the odt file was also full of binary junk - how do I get it in xml format?
well it turns out the new "office open xml" (docx, pptx etc) format used by Microsoft office is also xml based (and zipped).
Mostly wrong. it is binary blob, encapsulated in xml and then zipped. Any pretence to openness and standards is wholly coincidental and unintended.
i dont have access to any docx files to verify this though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_xml
cool - another request: it all comes in one line - what is the easiest way of formatting it?
just open them in firefox.
-Yohan