The idea was prompted by a comment a reader submitted to a recent post, where he talked about one of the challenges of trying to bridge two different formats (in this case ODF and OOXML) via translation: Both formats must evolve their new versions … [Continue reading] about The Funnel and the Wedge
So where are all the OOXML documents?
Google has a nice feature that allows you to search for documents that match a given file type. This is done by adding "filetype:NNN" to your query, where NNN corresponds to the file type. This feature has supported the ODF and OOXML document … [Continue reading] about So where are all the OOXML documents?
Math markup marked down
Sun's Erwin Tenhumberg fights some FUD about ODF and in passing provides a link that is worth a few more words. It appears that Science, the journal of the America Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), itself the largest scientific … [Continue reading] about Math markup marked down
Sometimes I need to remind myself
Tim Anderson has an interesting article up on his ITWriting blog, “Microsoft’s Jean Paoli on the XML document debate”. Of course, I treat anything Jean Paoli says on XML with such attention as I usually reserve for listening to the isorhythmic … [Continue reading] about Sometimes I need to remind myself
The Case for a Single Document Format: Part III
This is Part III of a four-part post. In Part I we surveyed of a number of different problem domains, some that resulted in a single standard, some that resulted in multiple standards. In Part II, we described the forces that tend to unify or … [Continue reading] about The Case for a Single Document Format: Part III