From patrick@durusau.net Thu May 17 05:43:49 2007 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 07:18:56 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: DIS 29500 Contradiction of ISO/IEC 26300, part 3 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: 1179405789-34fa000d0000-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: 1179405789 X-ASG-Whitelist: Client X-ASG-Orig-Subj: DIS 29500 Contradiction of ISO/IEC 26300, part 3 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: 3. Does anyone disagree with the statement that ISO/IEC 26300 does not in fact specify a mapping from the binary formats of Microsoft Office 97-2003 to the XML format that it defines? We do have to decide what is the coverage of both existing standards and any proposed new standards in order to evaluate whether a "contradiction" exists or not. As a co-editor of ISO/IEC 26300 I can attest that I have never seen such a mapping, despite having read the 26300 multiple times. That is *not* a comment on whether ISO/IEC 26300 is capable of representing the binary formats of Microsoft Office 97-2003 in the format it defines. (See my comments on what it means to "represent" a binary format in XML, which appear in part 5 of this series of posts.) 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!