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Subject: Proposal to amend TC charter, re interoperability with non-conformant applications
I am reposting my proposal here in a separate thread for purposes of discussion. I propose the following changes in the TC charter. Presently, the OASIS OpenDocument Technical Committee's charter, <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/charter.php>, contains the following statement of purpose: >>> Statement of Purpose The purpose of this TC is to create an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications. The resulting file format must meet the following requirements: 1. it must be suitable for office documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical documents, 2. it must be compatible with the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) v1.0 and W3C Namespaces in XML v1.0 specifications, 3. it must retain high-level information suitable for editing the document, 4. it must be friendly to transformations using XSLT or similar XML-based languages or tools, 5. it should keep the document's content and layout information separate such that they can be processed independently of each other, and 6. it should 'borrow' from similar, existing standards wherever possible and permitted. <<< I propose that we move requirement 4 to the end of the list, renumber the requirements accordingly, and add a new requirement 7 so the section reads: >>> Statement of Purpose The purpose of this TC is to create an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications. The resulting file format must meet the following requirements: 1. it must be suitable for office documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical documents, 2. it must be compatible with the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) v1.0 and W3C Namespaces in XML v1.0 specifications, 3. it must retain high-level information suitable for editing the document, 4. it should keep the document's content and layout information separate such that they can be processed independently of each other, 5. it should 'borrow' from similar, existing standards wherever possible and permitted, 6. it must be friendly to transformations using XSLT or similar XML-based languages or tools, and 7. it must provide all feasible functionality required to suppport full fidelity conversions from and to existing office document binary file formats. <<< I believe an up and down vote on this proposed amendment would be highly useful to end users such as the governments that have announced their intent to migrate to OpenDocument. I am of course open to refinement of the proposal. Best regards,
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