Ganesha Bhaskara wrote:
Folks,
If you are using Office 2007 and saving documents in .docx format,
please be warned that Office 2007 is not OOXML standard compliant. More
info here :
http://www.news.com/Office-2007-fails-OOXML-conformance-test/2100-7344_3-6237855.html
You would be better off saving in ODF or .doc (if you MUST .... I have
to :-( ) for now until OOXML stablilizes.
-G
The failures are important to know in order to really understand the
problem. Are there some simple errors that are creating many additional
warnings later in the document? Who knows from the article.
It is also important to know that the "Transitional" parsing doesn't
produce the same number of errors.
If I was writing a contract and specifying the standard, I would state
that it has to follow the "strict" standard. Of course there are issues
with OOo support of ODF when this comes into play.
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64237
Lets be careful on how this is pushed. OpenOffice.org could be the next
one with the headline about not meeting the standards.
---c/p---
In future, Brown hopes to repeat the test to see if the open-source
alternative to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, conforms with the Open
Source Initiative (OSI) version of the OpenDocument Format (ODF)
document standard: ISO/IEC 26300.
---/c/p/---
I would like to see OOXML die a painful death but I want ODF to be
accepted for being better, not just first. So before the supporters for
OOo start shouting from the mountain tops that OOXML fails the
standards, lets get our own house in order to supporting the ODF
standard, then we can shout even louder. :)
Meeting the standards should be a very high priority.
--
Robin Laing
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