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Re: [News] Typical Microsoft Uninterested in Interoperability

On Fri, 22 May 2009 10:39:04 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
 > In article <slrnh1bu08.odj.jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 >
 > There are things in old formats that neither OOXML nor ODF can 
 > represent.  Yet some people do need to represent those things in ODF and 
 > OOXML documents.  Hence, both standards allow for application-defined 
 > tagging and attributes.
 >
 > It is beyond the scope of either standard to specify the interpretation 
 > of those.

You've shifted the discussion to completely irrelevant issues.
Remember the original problem: Microsoft's converter in its infinite
wisdom strips out all formulas from an ODF spreadsheet. Are formulas
"application-defined tagging and attributes"?

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