From patrick@durusau.net Thu May 17 05:43:21 2007 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 07:17:41 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: DIS 29500 Contradiction of ISO/IEC 26300, part 2 To: Dave Welsh , Doug Mahugh , Frank Farance , Jerry Smith , Jon Bosak , "Levine, Leonard F CIV DISA GES-E" , Norm Walsh , "Lynne A. Price" , Rex Jaeschke , Richard Barber , Robert Weir , Steve Carton , Tim Schoechle , "Mason, James David (MXM)" , Kevin Trainor , Eduardo Gutentag Reply-to: patrick@durusau.net X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1179405788-35cf000c0000-F3fpwQ X-Barracuda-URL: http://10.10.100.8:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Connect: unknown[66.110.197.207] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1179405788 X-ASG-Whitelist: Client X-ASG-Orig-Subj: DIS 29500 Contradiction of ISO/IEC 26300, part 2 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at insimail.com Greetings! Continuing with the contradiction thread, I think the next question is as follows: 2. Does anyone disagree with the statement that DIS 29500 does not in fact specify a mapping from the binary formats of Microsoft Office 97-2003 to the XML format that it defines? I do note that in Part 1 of DIS 29500, 11.3.1 Alternative Format Import Part, provides in part: **** An alternative format import part allows content specified in an alternate format (HTML, MHTML, RTF, earlier versions of WordprocessingML, or plain text) to be embedded directly in a WordprocessingML document in order to allow that content to be migrated to the WordprocessingML format. .... A WordprocessingML consumer shall treat the contents of such legacy text files as if they were formatted using equivalent WordprocessingML, and if that consumer is also a WordprocessingML producer, it shall emit the legacy text in WordprocessingML format. **** But that DIS 29500 does not provide any mapping that would enable conformance to the "shall" language in the second quoted paragraph. (I have a separate comment on the interoperability problems posed by the lack of this mapping but I will be making that separate from this series of posts on the contradiction issue.) Hope everyone is having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Patrick@Durusau.net Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!