Re: Broken iWork 09 FACT

On 2/22/09 8:38 PM, Snit wrote:
I just was playing with files from both formats. Seems the '09 format is no
longer just a package, as '08 files are. The '09 files are zipped folders,
much like the DOCX format and the like. You can test this by getting an '09
file and changing the file extension to ZIP... it can then be unzipped.
This also works for DOCX files. Interesting to see Apple following MS in
this area.

They're /both/ following OpenOffice.org.

I did try to look at the XML definitions, but the namespaces Apple provides
leads to 404 pages. Oops. Then again, DOCX files point to a server that
does not exist. I do not know a lot about XML, but seems both are broken in
that regard.

No, an XML namespace name is just a namespace name; it's not expected to lead anywhere. The only reason they are made up as URLs is to avoid collisions in the meta-namespace. (Java package names use the same trick for the same reason, except that Java package names reverse the hierarchy to read left-to-right.)
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