Re: rfc - renaming of OpenXML plugin

From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms_at_1407.org>
Date: Mon Apr 07 2008 - 11:18:10 CEST

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:11:55AM +0200, Robert Staudinger wrote:
> we've been briefly discussing renaming the OpenXML plugin to something
> else, you know, to get rid of subtle suggestions about openness and
> xml of the current name.
>
> Obvious candidates are "ooxml", "oxml" and "oox". I'm proposing to use
> "oxml" because most of the source files are prefixed "OXML_" already.

ooxml is the format name, there is no "open xml" but http://www.w3.org/XML/

:)

I actually dislike "open xml" a lot for no other reason than it is
trying to imply that ooxml is something it is not, and is border line
insultuous to XML.

Rui

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