Wrapping with foreign elements in Word 2007 and OpenOffice Writer
Date : 08 19 2008 Category : Web
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But the bottom line for foreign elements as wrappers in ODF and OOXML is that ODF allows them to be stripped out by the application while OOXML doesn't allow that; neither of course require that any particular application understands them. The bottom line for OpenOffice and Office seems to be that OpenOffice strips them (dangerously, but perhaps allowed because of bad drafting of that part of the ODF standard) while Office 2007 does allow them. In both cases users would be helped by clearer text (better conformance text for the OASIS/ISO text, better references for the Ecma/ISO text.)