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by throwaway2343 3818 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 3818 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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