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On Feb 19, 2007, at 18:32, Elliotte Harold wrote: > I specifically said the Microsoft Office binary format. I have not > tested the new Microsoft XML format so I don't know how it is size > wise. However, their old binary formats are larger than the > OpenOffice formats. Just open any Word file in OpenOffice, save it > in OpenOffice, unzip it, and compare. You can see for yourself. 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. I guess all this talk will be more interesting when the EXI WG goes ahead and publishes. Hey, it's really nice to see chatter of binary XML come up and not really care at all :-) Ah the frivolous joys of high-powered computers with massive bandwidth! -- Robin Berjon ........................................................................ "Add: similar to replace, but with the notion of adding to the value rather than replacing it." -- the LASeR v1 specification
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