Teknisk sammenligning af ODF og OOXML

TODO: jeg skal have læst hele dette dokument med en sammenligning af ODF og OOXML.

Umiddelbart ser det rigtigt interessant ud efter en skimning af emnerne, men jeg har ikke fået chekket kilden endnu. Hvis man ellers kan regne med resultaterne, så synes jeg dog at afsnittet om "An example of the XML differences between ODF and OOXML word processing files", ser rigtigt interessant ud - ODFudgaven er langt mere overskuelig end OOXMLversionen af samme dokument.

Spoiler warning!
Jeg vil lige give et uddrag af konklusionen:
Først en evaluering af ODF:
"ODF was created using existing standards with this interoperability in mind, using long public consultation and design periods to achieve this. The benefits of this are evident when examining the resulting formats themselves."

Derefter en evaluering af OOXML:
"OOXML was designed by a single vendor, Microsoft, with no extensive public consultation or design input. It was largely designed to co-exist with their legacy formats using their own products. The design of the specification is such that could happen if their own legacy closed binary formats were simply “XML”ised – that is binary encodings simply converted to arbitrary XML tags."

Så tager vi fat på det evige spørgsmål om ODF kan udtrykke det samme som OOXML - her siger konklusionen:
"Upon examining the formats it is difficult to ascertain any technical reason why Microsoft Office documents cannot be saved and interchanged using ODF with one hundred percent reliability. ODF has the features that will deal with all Microsoft Office's quirks, even ones like “footnoteLayoutLikeWW8”. However, OOXML in its current state cannot handle any applications except Microsoft Office."

Der er flere gode argumenter herunder en liste af steder hvor OOXML modsiger sig selv og eksisterende standarder og over hvor OOXML bygger på ikke-standard ting.
Du kan finde sammenligningen i pdf-format lige her.