Adaptux - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Why bother? (Score 1) 2

by Adaptux on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @07:26AM (#27584179) Attached to: OhOhXML - the "standard" with a namespaces

We all know that MSXML is a proprietary format that only will work in Microsoft products, if in any products.

You may believe to "know" this, but some of us prefer facts about actual problems, which can be quoted e.g. to government decision-makers who will otherwise believe Microsoft's propaganda about OOXML.

Besides, this is good for a laugh, and an educational blunder, too. (Don't you agree that it's better to learn from the mistakes of others than to make the same mistakes yourselves first?)

Submission + - OhOhXML - the "standard" with a namespaces 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @05:31AM

An anonymous reader writes: One of the main benefits of using XML based data formats is that that XML files can automatically be validated against a schema. But of course this requires different versions of a schema to be differentiated by version numbers or different namespace names (for example by embedding a year number in the namespace name). The namespace names of OOXML have an embedded year number (2006) for this purpose. Now, when Microsoft submitted documentation of the file formats of "Office 2007" to ISO/IEC, they were not accepted as-is, but only with technical changes, including changes to the schemas. However the schema namespace names were not updated. This can lead to silent loss or corruption of data. The ISO/IEC working-group is pondering proposals for fixing the mess.

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