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by voltagex_ 3812 days ago
OS X only. What a pity. Also, has anyone reverse-engineered the file format yet?
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It's actually SQLite.
It's just XML IIRC.
So is SVG! Hell even docx is just XML!
It's a bit like saying "it's just ones and zeros".
Not really. XML parsers are readily available for every mainstream programming language. DOCX is a public standard as well. Unlike "ones and zeros", XML's structure is transparent.
Have you ever tried to parse DOCX/XMLX/PPTX anti-XML pattern? A XML-serialization of their old OLE based formats.

SVG, OpenDocument, ... are real XML based formats.