[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 05-01-2010 21:57, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<7qe7k1F3ukpruU3 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> The new format is .docx, which is xml.  I am always amazed at how
>> many people who always bitched about MS proprietary formats bitch
>> just as lound about their use of XML.
>
>     No.  .docx is zip.  It contains some XML files and a .doc file, which
>     is also not XML.

The content of .docx is XML - it is just zipped to save space.

Similar to that a lot of web servers serve HTML as GZIP'ed.

Arne