OOXML expert: ODF flaws remain

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 7, 2008 3:29 AM EDT
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Experts have defended the Open Document Format standard against suggestions that its schema is broken, but the critic who highlighted the alleged flaws has defended his position. Alex Brown, a major contributor to the progress of the ODF's Microsoft-backed rival, OOXML, within the international standards process, carried out a "smoke test" last week, which he said showed the OpenOffice open-source application suite does not produce documents that conform to the ODF format--and also showed the schema defined in the OpenOffice standard is broken.

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