Fwd: [xml-dev] OpenDocument DTD

[Bruce D'Arcus <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us>]

Now this is interesting. Have any of you heard this before; that MS 
Word is not fully compliant with its own schema?

If it is, that might be a way to differentiate ODF technically. The MS 
people sometimes snidely complain that ODF is based on RELAX NG, but 
RNG's power may provide advantages in this case.

Of course, I'm not sure how well ODF-based applications work on this 
count.

Bruce

Begin forwarded message:

> From: <lfournie@rockwellcollins.com>
> Date: February 8, 2006 11:36:17 AM EST
> To: dev@xml.openoffice.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] OpenDocument DTD
> Reply-To: dev@xml.openoffice.org
>
> Hello,
>
> We are using both OOo and MS WordML in our company.
> I found a serious issue in WordML and I would like to know the exact 
> situation for OpenOffice.org
>
> One of our XML application has build a XML document that is fully 
> compliant with the WordML Schema, but Word fails to open the document.
> Microsoft claim that some features can not be expressed by XSD...but 
> does not document these features (!)
>
> Could you confirm that if a document is valid agains the OpenDocument 
> DTD, OOo will always open it ?
> Does it exists format features in OOo not checked by the DTD ?
>
> This is important, because we have internally hot debates on Word XML 
> versus OOo XML.
>
> Thanks
>
> Laurent