Invisible wrote:
> http://practical-tech.com/business/microsoft-cant-support-open-xml/
> THIS is a joke, surely?

No, it's normal ISO standards stuff. Nobody's prototype of a standard 
ever supports the standard as passed. Surprise, surprise, software 
written before the standard was passed doesn't include support for the 
changes ISO made in the standard before they passed it.

 > So now we have an ISO standard that nobody can actually implement?

No. It just hasn't been implemented yet. And nobody *wants* to implement 
it. They want to be able to get at the data with different software, 
which is what this does.

And a 6000 page specification isn't unreasonable for something like 
this, either. The ODF specification isn't complete either, unless you 
include the source code for OpenOffice.org as part of it.  Is anyone 
*really* going to implement a competitor to OpenOffice.org that doesn't 
do anything not already in that standard?

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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