[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: NY Times reference to 'secret coding'
Noah Mendelsohn wrote: > There are often at least two levels of concern when considering > compatibility of an office-style file format: 1) given the published > specifications and an arbitray document instnace, can you extract the > general semantics ... Developers at Apple and Novell are in a better position to provide their insight. Apple recently released an OOXML conversion tool. Novell has one for Novell OpenOffice. Here are the links for downloads: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/microsoftofficeopenxmlfileformatconverter.html http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?product_id=&search=Search&build_type=SDBuildBean&families=3402&version=&date_range=&keywords=&x=38&y=14 Those converters are new, as is the Sun plugin that enables Microsoft Office to write OpenDocument files (odp-1.0-bin-windows-en-US.exe): http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=8&PartDetailId=ODF-WIN-G-F&TransactionId=noreg In another thread, Rick Marshal about: >> http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections The EOOXML objections list points out that "Ecma 376 contradicts numerous international standards" It enumerates ISO/IEC standards and W3C recommendations that are contradicted. It's reasonable that a W3C recommendation such as XML, should cite a relevant ISO standard (SGML). Arguing that a proposed ISO standard contradicts other ISO standards is also reasonable. But why is there an expectation that proposed ISO standards are bound by W3C recommendations, such as SMIL? The EOOXML objections list also says "Ecma 376 cannot be reasonably implemented by other vendors". There are implementations from Apple and Novell (see above), although both are quite recent. What would be useful is for the National Institute of Standards and Technology to do interoperability testing and certification for office document conformance. NIST has conformance test suites for various XML-related specs so it has a background in this type of conformance testing. If it had test cases for office documents we'd know whether the implementations are consistent (Microsoft/Apple/Novell for OOXML, the Sun and Microsoft plugins for OpenDocument). ======== Ken North =========== www.KNComputing.com www.WebServicesSummit.com www.SQLSummit.com www.GridSummit.com
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] |
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|