Popularity Report
 |
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
Rank
URL Tag Cloud
- iso
- , odf
- , opendocument
- , din
- , openxml
- , fraunhofer
- , ooxml
- , harmonization
Groups (2)
-
Document Wars
8 members,364 bookmarks
Document Wars covers the portable XML document battle between OpenDocument, Office Open XML, and CDF, the W3C's Compound Document Format. The relationship to the Grand Convergence of desktop, server, device and web systems will be decisive, with application independence and universal interoperabili
-
OpenDocument
19 members,376 bookmarks
A collection of comments and discussions concerning OpenDocument and the challenge presented by Microsoft's Office Open XML.
Bookmark History
Saved by 1 people (1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-01-31
- Garyedwards on 2008-01-31 - Tags din , fraunhofer , harmonization , iso , odf , ooxml , opendocument , openxml
Public Sticky notes
This myth is rather silly if you think about it. Here is why…
When people talk about interoperability and Open XML they do so primarily in the context of ODF. The story goes something like this:
1. Open XML is not interoperable with ODF
2. Open XML should be interoperable with ODF because ODF is already an ISO standard!
3. Hence: Open XML is no good, because it is not interoperable with ODF and therefore Open XML should not be an ISO standard!!!
Highlighted by garyedwards
on 2008-01-31 by garyedwards
Forget ISO approval of OOXML. I would rather see ISO enforce the current directive that ODF be brought into compliance with existing ISO Interoperability requirements. Then and only then should ISO then consider OOXML.
The reason for this approach? If ODF wiere compliant with existing ISO Interop Requirements, there would probably be some hope of harmonizing ODF and OOXML. Until ODF is stripped of it's application specific settings, and fully documented, we can hardly beging the process of figuring out harmonization.
ODF 1.0 has four gapping holes that must be tended to before ISO proceeds any furhter with either ODF or OOXML. The holes are that ODF numbered lists, formulas and the presentation layer (styles) are woefully underspecified. The fourth problem is that ODF is seriously lacking an interoperability framework.
These ODF problems can of course be traced back to the fact that ODF is application specific and bound to the "semantics and capabilities" of OpenOffice. That creates all kinds of problems. OOXML on the other hand is even worse. OOXML is application, platform and vendor specific!!!!
If ODF were brought up to snuff, we could reasonably start work on harmonization. Thereby eliminating the need to standardize two file formats for the same purposes. Until ODF is fixed, what's the world to do?
~ge~
Public Comment