ODF versus OOXML: Don't forget about HTML! - O'Reilly XML Blog - 0 views
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Don't forget about HTML
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February 25, 2007
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HTML’s potential and actual suitability for much document interchange
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HTML is the format to consider first
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validated, standards compliant XHTML in particular
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HTML at one end (simple WP documents)
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PDF at the other end (full page fidility but read-only)
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W3C versus ISO
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HTML, ODF, OOXML, PDF
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Lie adopts an extreme view towards overlap of standards:
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overlap at all brings nothing but misery and bloat.
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The next dodgy detail is to make blanket comparisons between HTML and ODF/OOXML.
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ODF and OOXML deal with many issues that HTML/CSS simply does not.
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the W3C argument might be to say that every part should have a URL
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a strange theory that MS wants ODF and OOXML to both fail
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being pro-ODF does not mean you have have to be anti-OOXML
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HTML is the format ｏｆ choice for interchange of simple documents
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ODF will evolve to be the format of choice for more complicated documents
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OOXML is the format of choice for full-fidelity dumps from MS Office
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PDF is the format of choice for non-editable page-faithful documents
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all have overlap
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we need to to encourage a rich library of standard technologies,
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widely deployed,
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free,
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unencumbered,
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explicit,
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awareness of when each is appropriate
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an adequate set of profiles and profile validators
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using ISO Schematron
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Plurality
