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by frozenport 3821 days ago
So is SVG! Hell even docx is just XML!
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tlrobinson 3821 days ago
It's a bit like saying "it's just ones and zeros".
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throwaway2343 3821 days ago
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.
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castell 3820 days ago
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.

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