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Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?



On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 05:26:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 21:50, dave mallery wrote:
[...]
> > i havent seen anyone mention XML.  both star and open office now use it.
> > it is open by default.
> 
> AbiWord uses XML, and all the data is "encoded" in text, whereas 
> OO/SO stores it's data in binary format.

And OO/SO's binary file is a zip archive containing -- you guessed it -- xml
files.

dt

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