[odf-discuss] Mass may endorse OXML.

[Daniel Carrera]

marbux wrote:
> And of course the majority never makes a mistake.

Everyone who has a product in the market voted unanimously for the new 
proposal.

Marbux, how much programming experience do you have? Have you ever 
written an ODF (or any XML) application? Everyone who has (and has 
chosen to speak) disagrees with your proposal. For example, I have said 
before that your expectation that all applications preserve unknown data 
"needed for interoperability" is technically infeasible. Patrick said as 
much on the TC list recently. Thomas has also replied to you at length.

> several people agreed with 
> me on that, including Bruce, Patrick, and Michael Brauer.

None of whom agree with the substance of your proposals:

"If you send your file to my ODF application which doesn't understand 
your content, how is that interoperability? ... It is not possible to 
have interoperability based upon the premise that all ODF applications 
must accept unknown content." - Patrick

"There never has been any requirement in ODF that foreign elements and 
attributes be preserved and the authors of such methods knew that when 
writing their converter. The authors of other software are under no 
obligation to make changes in their software to work with such a 
solution. And using standards to force others to adapt to a particular 
conversion strategy is extremely poor standards making. " - Patrick

Daniel.