[OpenISO] Fwd: Comment on OOXML

[Claude Almansi]

Hi Michael

OOXML has been discussed quite a bit on the public SIUG.ch list, where
you can join from
https://your.trash.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/siug-discuss : Norbert
Bollow, who created OpenISO.org, is chairman of SIUG and was a member
of UK14, the Swiss subcommittee that voted on OOXML as an ISO
specification.

Actually, it's in great part thanks to his relentless documentation
and information work that ISO decided that the first Swiss vote on
OOXML was invalid due to the irregularities in the voting procedure in
UK14, and that  Switzerland appears with the skull and crossbones
indicating serious irregularities on the map in
http://www.noooxml.org/ballotresults .

But if you want something exclusively dedicated to OOXML, you could
try the <no>OOXML forum: http://www.noooxml.org/forum:start  . It is
not a mailing list, granted, but it has heaps of RSS feeds.

Best

Claude

On 9/11/07, Michael Rasmussen <michael at rasmussen.cc> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I haven't seen a specific list for comments to OOXML so I hope it is OK
> to post some here?
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> To the best of my knowledge no NB (National Body) has addressed the
> fundamental problem. If we can agree upon the assumption that XML is a
> standard the OOXML specification sincerely fails the fundamental
> requirements which any XML document must obey:
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> 1) No dependency to a specific application
> 2) No specific requirements to tools
> 3) Self documented in a human readable form
>
> As one of the main arguments Microsoft have used for their new document
> format is that it is based on XML, and that there presumption regarding
> XML is its ability to give the highest degree of interoperability it is
> remarkable that OOXML fails to fulfill all the above requirements. The
> above stated requirements is the basis upon which XML's ability to
> provide interoperability relies.
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> Hilsen/Regards
> Michael Rasmussen