[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: 3 commits - include/xmloff sw/source xmloff/source

[Michael Stahl]

On 24/05/13 12:43, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 of May 2013, Michael Stahl wrote:

>>     But only OOoXML and (perhaps) HTML (not sure) want "true" as the
>>     default.
> 
>> +            mpImpl->mbIsOOoXML =
>> +                ::comphelper::OStorageHelper::GetXStorageFormat(xStor)
>> +                   < SOFFICE_FILEFORMAT_8;
> 
>  Was the old OOo format really called OOoXML? Seeing this commit made me 
> pretty confused until I figured out after a while that it has in fact nothing 
> to do with OOXML.

the actual name "OpenOffice.org XML format" is a bit long to type...

quoth xmloff/README:

> There is another library "xof" built from the source/transform directory,
> which is the filter for the OpenOffice.org XML format.  This legacy format
> is a predecessor of ODF and was the default in OpenOffice.org 1.x versions,
> which did not support ODF.  This filter works as a SAX transformation
> from/to ODF, i.e., when importing a document the transform library reads
> the SAX events from the file and generates SAX events that are then
> consumed by the ODF import filter.
> 
> http://www.openoffice.org/xml/general.html
> http://www.openoffice.org/xml/xml_specification.pdf

well... guess why Microsoft called theirs "Office Open XML"?  i always
thought that name was chosen to maximize amount of generated confusion...