Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Do not support writing to OOXML format

On 1/2/2011 12:01 PM, Craig A. Eddy wrote:
> On 01/02/2011 10:46 AM, Lee Hyde wrote:
> ---- SNIP ----
> > My understanding is that Microsoft intends to implement strict OOXML
> > gradually, with each successive release of Microsoft Office using an
> > increasingly 'strict' form of transitional OOXML. Assuming that I am
> > correct in this assumption, does it not make sense that Microsoft will
> > make each successive version of their transitional OOXML backwards
> > compatible with their last and that they will release updates or add-ons
> > to ensure forward compatibility for older products (Office 2007 and 2010).
> I, personally, cannot make that presumption, based on previous
> experience with Microsoft.  There is a dichotomy between what MS says
> and what it does.  And an even wider one between what one might presume
> and what MS does.
> ---- SNIP ----
> > Now
> > I assume nobody has an issue with strict OOXML (which is, as I
> > understand it, an open standard) so why would you have an issue with
> > implementing by graduations (in line with Microsoft) strict OOXML via a
> > series of transitional specifications?
> I'm concerned by what you mean by an open standard.  To me, open means
> free to use and free to see.  From what I understand of the OOXML ISO as
> it was passed there are a lot of MS add-ons that are proprietary, as
> well as a lot of binary blobs that are proprietary.  Also a number of
> definitions that are so vague that they are, for all intents and
> purposed, unable to be implemented as written.  Therefore, I can not
> look at OOXML as being and OPEN standard.  Yes, it is a standard (to
> Microsoft's eternal shame).  But OPEN it is NOT.

Are those faults true of the Strict version (at least, after incorporation of comments), or only of 
the Transitional version? My understanding was that the Strict form can become truly open.

> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > Lee Hyde.
> ---- SNIP ----
>
> Craig
> Tyche

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