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Originally Posted by tompe
A well designed format like XML does not lead to expensive tool like for example SGML that is not well designed for the kind of tasks that XML is used for.
If the format is hard to implement or hard to understand and hard to validate tools for then tools will be expensive.
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More likely a bunch of cheap tools done poorly. Even simple formats can have expensive tools so I don't think that is the reason. Openoffice certainly did a poor job of adding tags if adding tags doubled the size. I suspect they don't really understand the issue. Someone should write a bug against openoffice and get it fixed. This is a serious bug IMHO. Personally I don't use Openoffice.
Dale