Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/22/07 22:27

Toby A Inkster wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> Toby A Inkster wrote:
>>
>>> As it happens, it's well-established that Word documents are basically
>>> just a memory dump of what Word holds in its memory.
>> It has? By whom? Certainly not from Microsoft. Where did you find that?
>
> It's been raised in various interviews I've read with OpenOffice.org
> developers. Can't find many detailed references to it right now, but, the
> following links back me up to an extent:
>

Ah, but OpenOffice is not MS Word. And just because OpenOffice
implements something one way doesn't mean Word does.

> http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=54027
> http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=38703
>
> Chris Pratley (a fairly senior MS Office developer) wrote a few articles
> in April 2004 that seemed to nod in that direction too. You should be able
> to Google for his blog.
>

I don't find where he ever claimed that.

>>> That said, most other word processing document formats are different from
>>> the way the document is held in memory.
>> And why would they be so much different than Word? Maybe Word doesn't
>> do it what way, either?
>
> Recent word processors (MS products excepted) tend to default to saving in
> open, interchangeable formats, such as RTF, ODF and so forth. Assuming
> that recent word processors are not all based on the same codebase
> (they're not), then it follows that their internal structures cannot all
> match up to one of these file formats.
>

So? We aren't talking about OpenOffice, "recent word processors", etc.
We were talking about MS Word.

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