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    For a laugh...

    ...I unzipped my group project docx (96 pages, 5.5MiB) to have a look at the file structure and the XML formatting.

    I like how it's separated the components out into files, and the embedded images are still stored as images, not binary blobs and so on.

    Then I opened the bulk of the text - document.xml - and was met with about 60% XML tags, 40% text. And we used styles, properly.

    Now, I haven't compared it to ODF, but is it really this bad? I thought XML was supposed to be human readable... this isn't.
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    Re: For a laugh...

    I had no idea you could do that.

    I think I'll need to play around sometime

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    Re: For a laugh...

    OOXML is extremely awful, and MS Office 2007 doesn't even do that properly

    There's all kinds of fun little oddities in OOXML, such as an allowance for characters that XML doesn't support (although this is needed to some degree, it uses raw ascii/unicode for them, potentially causing major compatibility issues), the straight use of the old raw binary data in some parts, propriety systems for others... and there's so much more! Argh!

    Although a big well done is needed for microsoft, for showing how easily a company with oodles of money can completely corrupt the ISO process

    As for ODF, it is far more human readable I just unzipped and opened up a highly formatted document to check, and it's quite neat (although seemingly stripped of whitespace). Sadly, however and despite what FOSS fanatics insist, OOo is not anywhere near as good as MS Office

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