• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: Robin Berjon <robin@j...>
• Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:01:07 -0500

Robin Berjon wrote:

> You've probably lost information though (for some value of 
> "information"). AFAIK the MS Office binary format has stuff in it that 
> MS themselves have totally lost track of long ago.

Not a lot, actually. My experiments have found that when you compress 
the same documents in Office binary and OpenOffice XML formats, the 
end-result is that they're within a few percentage points of each other. 
Not predictably one way or the other either. That suggests that they 
have pretty close to the same information content.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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  • Re: Re: [ubl-dev] Top 10 uses of XML in 2007
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