SC 34 Meetings, Seattle - Day 1

by Alex Brown 13. September 2009 16:03
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At the invitation of ANSI, SC 34 is in sunny Bellevue for five jam-packed days of Standards meetings (Sunday-Thursday). This is a full and busy event, with around 60 delegates registered from 14 countries (Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Korea, Norway, South Africa, UK, and the USA) and 4 liaison organisations (Ecma, OASIS, W3C and the XML Guild).

Maybe by the end of it a number of momentous questions will have been answered, including:

  • Whether the world needs a standardised way to associate XML documents with schemas
  • Whether OOXML Transitional should be evolved
  • How ISO/IEC 26300 shall be maintained within SC 34
  • How standard schemas should be licensed to users
  • How MIME types should best be used for identifying document formats

Stay tuned ...


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9/13/2009 8:28:52 PM #

Jesper Lund Stocholm

I'm looking forward to hearing more.

Smile

Jesper Lund Stocholm Denmark |

9/15/2009 1:32:22 PM #

Jesper Lund Stocholm

Hi Alex,

Could you elaborate on your tweet http://twitter.com/al3xbrown/status/3990259423

"Hmm, any OOXML document using MCE is not conformant OOXML per the Standard"

?

Jesper Lund Stocholm Denmark |

9/16/2009 5:43:53 AM #

Alex

@Jesper

- Part 1 does not reference Part 3 (MCE)

- The "preprocessor" described in Part 3 is informative and optional

MCE-containing documents are invalid to the Part 1 schemas, and so non-conformant OOXML ...

More work to be done ...

Alex United Kingdom |

10/6/2009 4:55:12 PM #

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