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Guess there is some good coming out of the move to XML by Microsoft in their Office apps.


If you've ever looked at the XML that they create you might conclude that it is just as "easy" to reverse engineer a binary proprietry file format as it is to parse the Office XML files...

Mind you, I just ran across a similar case on the Mac. I was trying to find out how to read Garageband files in my app. Apple don't publish the file format and have said they have no plans to. I was suprised and delighted when I opened a Garageband file to find it was XML. Delighted that is until I read further down the file and found the <data></data> node that contained all the interesting stuff in a single base64 encoded block. So much for the openness of XML
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