[Noooxml] [odf-discuss] URGENT: Support threatened open standards in Europe before Sept 15, 2007

[Lars Noodén]

marbux wrote:
> I suspect that the Gartner document is not going to affect major government
> decisions on office document formats in the E.U. From everything I can see,
> that is the PEGSCO report. <http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/3439/5585>.
> ...

The conclusions, section 6, of the PEGSCO report are interesting and can
be useful since if strictly interpreted do exclude MOOX[1] in all but
name.

However, the intial part of the document, section 3 specifically,
contains a great many factual errors regarding MOOX and some
speculation/wishful thinking in place of facts.

3.1 - correct
3.2 - we see now it is not XML, though it does make some use of XML
3.3 - so far only the OASIS spec (now standard) is published in its
	entirety, the other does not provide enough to be compliant or
	even useul
3.4 - again one uses XML following the spirit of XML, the other
	provides lip service to interoperability and includes
	a lot of binaries
3.5 - only the Sun plugin works for MSO
3.6 - good but not relevant for editable documents


-Lars

[1] 	I still don't know WTF to call the cluster of .docx,
	Ecm376 and MS OOXML, nor add to the confusion by
	conflating these different formats.