Now, it doesn't necessarily have to be Word — for ease of comparison, let's use ODT, which is based on XML — which is pretty similar to HTML. That would, to my mind, make rendering an ODT document almost like rendering an HTML website.With ODT and HTML+CSS basically being two ways of describing a page's layout, what are the differences in rendering them?Is it simply that HTML+CSS is more flexible and thus requires more complex rendering? A complicated website can have countless nested elements, all with relative positioning, custom styling etc. Compared to that, an ODT has a far simpler/more predictable structure, which I think should be easier to render.
How is rendering a Word document different from rendering a website?
html;css;xml;document;rendering