[odf-discuss] Alex Brown on OOo ODF validity

[Jean Hollis Weber]

marbux wrote:
> <http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39409700,00.htm>
> 
> Alex Brown, a document-format expert who is convenor of the process to
> standardise Office Open XML (OOXML), posted a blog this week reporting
> the results of tests which he claims reveal that OpenOffice documents
> do not conform to the International Organization for Standardization's
> (ISO's) version of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard.
> 
> <http://www.griffinbrown.co.uk/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=f0384bed-808b-49a8-8887-ea7cde5caace>
> [snip]
> I'd be very interested to find an office application that does work
> with valid ISO/IEC 26300 content. Do any readers know of one?

See Rob Weir's article "ODF Validation for Dummies":
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/05/odf-validation-for-dummies.html

Discussion with Rob, please, not me. I'm just the messenger.

--Jean