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kingaillas on Dec 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: “This is the worst documentation I have ever seen ...

I kind of remember a massive CDATA blob... but my memory must be playing tricks on me: Wikipedia shows some sample markup of the pre-2007 Microsoft Office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats) and it doesn't look bad at all.

And it seems after 2007 they switched to an ECMA standard.

ethbr0 on Dec 15, 2020 [–]

In all fairness, during the first XML migration, I'm sure internal MS folks were just as baffled at the previous format.

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