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		leonewton253 29 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex ... Yeah but those are open standards, where as Microsoft is the only one with true knowledge of its XML.

wvenable 29 days ago [–]

You know you're referring to ECMA-376 and ISO/IEC 29500?

mdaniel 29 days ago | [–]

In OP's defense, is there a freely available reference implementation of that standard? I know that LibreOffice certainly tries but I'd guess theirs is closer to a reverse engineered than reference impl

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