Open Office Wars, part 4

Dare Obasanjo: The biggest gripe when Office 2003's XML support was announced was that the schemas for WordprocessingML (aka WordML) and co. were proprietary. This was reported in a number of fora including Slashdot and C|Net news. I wonder how many will carry the announcements that these schemas are available for all to peruse and reuse in a royalty free manner?

Did I link to one of these?  Yup.  OK, so I will link link to the announcement.  Done.

Note: in my blog entry I didn't "gripe" about the schemas for WordML, my question related to PowerPoint11.


Is it my impression or you're doing a XPath-based search on your entire blog archives?

"?q=//xhtml:a[contains(@href,'http://news.com...')]"

Sweet!

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Jonas, yes: examples

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Open Office Wars, Part 5

I will note in passing that OpenDocument is the default file format for OpenOffice 2.0, currently in beta.  It apparently is not compatible with the OpenOffice 1.x formats. Earlier I wrote parts 1, 2,  3,  4.  Time for an update. Complaints on OpenOff... [more]

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