2. WordprocessingML Reference Material - OOXML-Wiki - 0 views
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It is desired to have improved interoperability between ODF and OOXML. However, OOXML lacks the following features:
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It is desired to have improved interoperability between ODF and OOXML. However, OOXML lacks the following feature: image can be positioned absolutely within a frame Proposed change: Include support for this feature from ISO ODF in order to improve interoperability between the two formats.
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Include support for this feature in ISO ODF is another way of saying to hell with Ecma, OASIS and the big vendors driving the ODF-OOXML bus, Micrsoft and Sun. This is delicious beyond belief. It's also the only way the world is going to get the interoperability they are demanding. The big vendors must be neutralized. The file formats must be completely independent of applications, platforms and the control of big vendors who routinely make exclussionary interoperabilty deals with each other whenever and wherever profitable.
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I promise that within a few minutes of reading this OOXML Wiki you will be wondering if this is in fact an ODF Wiki! This is incredible.
Fast forward to the section called, "Interoperability between ODF and OOXML", and enjoy. They cite the problem and make an interop recommendation for each entry. And what a recommendation it is. Speaks volumes.
There is definately something going on in Europe. The EU IDABC has rejected ODF, OOXML, OASIS, Ecma and ISO! And are now trying to write their own highly interoperable XML file format, ODEF. an effort we will fully support with our da Vinci plugin for MSOffice.
Well, not only will we support ODEF, we'll write it for them if they really want to cut to the chase and get the kind of vendor independent interoperability the world hungers for.
The British Standards Institute (BSi) is responsible for the massive research that went into this OOXML Wiki. They have hunted down and defined the interoperability problem areas between ODF and OOXML. Surprise surprise. They be many.
The interesting part is that the BSi researchers have found massive, indeed overwhelming fault with OOXML! Yet, instead of recommending that Ecma make the needed changes to OOXML, they instead recommend that ISO ODF make the changes!
Not OASIS ODF! Not Ecma OOXML.
ISO ODf!
The difference is all the difference in the world. Sun does not control ISO ODF the way they control OASIS ODF. And at ISO, all the binding of ODF to OpenOffice/StarOffice that accounts for the zero interoperability of ODF applications can be broken as needed.
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