March 2008 - Posts
Some of the opponents of Open XML have stated that because a final draft of the specification with all approved changes is not available, National Standards Bodies should decide to vote Disapprove. This is pure FUD, and they know it. The final draft of
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Stephen McGibbon has posted on Czech Republic voting "Yes" on Open XML. The CNI press release is here . CNI is an ISO/IEC JTC1 P Member . An excerpt from the press release: During processing the standard proposal ISO/IEC DIS 29500 CNI was observing the
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So I've been in this job for nearly three months. Seems much longer than that. I've been feeling the need to blog about the nature of the debates around Open XML and the ISO process. There are two separate and distinct debates running. One of them is
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Developers can implement Open XML on a variety of platforms. I've written a fair amount of code that processes Open XML markup, and it is obvious that the markup is not platform specific. The description of paragraphs, styles, workbooks, worksheets, rows,
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(Note: July 9, 2008 - I've written a new post that shows an even better way to implement functionality like this.) Sometimes I get to write a blog post that is really fun to write, and this is one of them. This particular subject started brewing in my
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In the review of the Open XML specification, several national standards bodies submitted comments regarding the embedding of linked objects. The complaint was that Open XML markup was tied too specifically to Microsoft's technologies, i.e. OLE. Ecma's
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