Re: [office] Fwd: [xml-dev] OpenDocument DTD

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

There are normative parts of the ODF
1.0 specification aside from the schemas.  Although we haven't formally
defined "conformance" for ODF, I would assume that if we did,
it would go beyond mere validity of the XML to the schema.   For example,
packaging conventions, or spreadsheet formulas (to the extent they are
xsd:string's with internal structure).    I think it is more
like "All conformant documents are valid, but not all valid documents
are conformant".  Any specification needs to carefully document
any required semantics which are not expressible in the schema.  

-Rob


"Bruce D'Arcus" <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us>
wrote on 02/08/2006 11:48:40 AM:

> 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