____/ Jesper Lund Stocholm on Monday 25 February 2008 07:34 : \____
> Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:7519ea72-a579-46ee-b4ff-870ddb9cac15@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> That's a little extream - and very unlikely. I only mean that if they
>> embed say another application in the document, then that application
>> may not run on say Linux or MacOS X. I don't really think this is a
>> very likely scenario....
>
> How would you embed another application in a file? OOXML is a document
> format - not an application or platform.
The file can contain a description of an executable (or a pointer to a
peripheral one). OOXML can contain arbitrary binaries, as well as Windows-only
bits of code. I'll provide examples if you requires them.
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