[OpenISO] OOXML ballot comments and Reference Implementations

[Std Lib0]

There's an interesting recent discussion on OOXML ballot at
Alex Brown's (ISO BRM Convenor) blog:
http://www.adjb.net/comments.php?y=07&m=09&entry=entry070909-104641

An interesting quote:

"ISO rules forbid reference implementations. The thinking is that the text
must itself by complete, self-contained, and authoritative; a reference
implementation opens the possibility of deviation from the text, thereby
creating uncertainty about which is "right".

That said, in SC34, we follow the practice of informally requiring that our
"home-grown" standards (RELAX NG, NVDL, Schematron etc) are proved
efficiently implementable during standardisation. If my time wasn't so taken
up with DIS 29500 I would be working on an implementation of DTLL in Java to
accompany the draft standard, for example!"
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