Re: [tdf-discuss] OOXML ECMA-376, transitionnal and strict

Hi

In the sake of documenting this, the UK Cabinet Office decision can be 
found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-for-government/sharing-or-collaborating-with-government-documents

In this URL there is addditional information about the supoport process:
https://standards.data.gov.uk/meeting/technical-standards-panel-meeting-17-march-2014

the main reason behind the ooxml rejection seems to be:

   We considered ODF and OpenXML in view of the UK Government
   definition of open standards, which was set following a full public
   consultation in 2012.

   ODF appeared to meet the definition. However, OpenXML did not appear
   to meet the criteria for market support - particularly regarding
   vendor independence. We found products which appear to implement
   OpenXML but only the most recent products claim to have the strict
   implementation and it is not used as a default format in any
   product. In addition, the development of the standard currently has
   limited involvement from outside a single supplier of office
   productivity suites.

Thanks

El 26/04/16 a les 19:27, Italo Vignoli ha escrit:
> On 26/04/2016 15:09, pasqual milvaques wrote:
>
> > The 'transitional' variant of ooxml is specified in Part 4 of ISO/IEC
> > 29500 so it's standard, it's supposed that the features of the
> > transitional variant ease the transition from older formats, I'm not
> > sure if there is a plan for making the strict variant the default in MS
> > Office, in Office 2016 it's not yet
> OOXML Transitional is definitely not recognized as a standard, and is
> specified in Part 4 of ISO/IEC 29500 exactly because is not a standard
> (to make it clear how it differs from the standard). OOXML Transitional
> was accepted to ease the transition to the standard, and as such should
> have lasted only a few years, while it has been used by Microsoft as the
> default OOXML format since forever. In addition, OOXML Transitional is
> different for each version of MS Office, and the differences are not
> documented (only the first OOXML Transitional was documented).
>
> In addition, OOXML Strict - which is the ONLY accepted standard - is
> almost impossible to obtain by normal users, as the process is far from
> the usual one, as in order to have an OOXML Strict you must save the
> document before performing ANY action (as otherwise the format switches
> to OOXML Transitional, which is not a standard).
>
> UK Cabinet Office has clearly documented the reasons why OOXML is not a
> standard file format.


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