[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 134860] Illegal table in generated DOCX not shown in writer, but shown in Word correctly

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134860

Telesto <telesto at surfxs.nl> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Telesto <telesto at surfxs.nl> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #7)
> Every workaround like this makes our code more fragile, prone to bugs or
> exploits; for the sake of pleasing some lazy developer of invalid
> generators, we risk introducing bugs into normal file handling.

I understand the argument made here.. however out curiosity. 

1) Why is Word able to handle this? Show Microsoft decided to allow this to
work? The had to implement this them-self for a reason (even if it's of spec)

2) And what about file compatibility. Not sure how many of those files are
around. From technical point of view this might be correct answer. However from
user point of view.. If the intended use case is to replace MS Office with
LibreOffice, this might be a hurdle. And saying fix it by using MS Office,
might be saying lets use MS Office in general. 

Should this not better be assessed based what the competitors do? 
-> Google Docs handles this as LibreOffice (didn't check the rest)

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