[Plugtest-org] Legacy formats at the plugfest

[Michiel Leenaars]

Dear all,

w.r.t. the debate on mapping of legacy formats and ODF: 

I recall that during the previous plugfest Peter Amstein from Microsoft stated 
that they have an internal spreadsheet that contains their mapping of the 
Microsoft binary formats on ODF and vice versa. I'm not sure when Microsoft 
plans to release this, but obviously it would be interesting to discuss how to 
make, maintain and version such a mapping as I see a need for similar mappings 
from other vendors as well. These might concern other popular legacy formats 
such as Corel's native Wordperfect and the old Lotus formats but maybe also 
how applications like OpenOffice.org or Google Docs map ODF on say the binary 
Microsoft Office file formats.

Maybe Peter or Doug could do a short presentation on how Microsoft went about 
creating their mapping? It would be good to discuss best practises on how to 
publish this type of information, I think.

Best,
Michiel