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SFS (Finland) Comments | Date: 2007-08-31 | Document: ISO/IEC DIS 29500 |
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ISO/IEC DIS 29500 -ballot
SFS (Finland) Comments
SFS arranged a meeting with
stakeholders where Finland's vote for ISO/IEC DIS 29500 -ballot was
decided. No consensus of 'Approve' or 'Disapprove' could be found and
Finland decided to vote 'Abstention'. There was strong consensus that
Finland should send comments with the vote.
Please find Finland's comments in
attached ISO Comment
Template.
Yours
Sincerely,
Lassi Nirhamo
Technical Adviser
IT-standardisation
FINNISH STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
SFS
FI | All documents | ge | Finland is very supportive for the standardisation of the Microsoft Office XML file format and thinks it is a great step forward for interoperable documents. | |||
FI | All parts | ge | However, Finland is concerned about the general quality and immatureness of the present state of the proposed standard. There are several issues where further development would be appreciated for the proposed standard to meet the ISO standards document criteria defined in ISO/IEC Directives Part 2. The following comments were especially raised during the Finland's ISO/IEC DIS 29500 ballot process. | |||
FI | All documents | te | The future maintenance of the proposed standard could possibly be easier if it was divided into multi-part standard. | Divide standard to multi-part standard | ||
FI | Part 4 | te | Legacy support features (deprecated features) seem to be hard to find from the Part 4 document. The interpretation of the proposed standard could be easier to all parties if these features were clearly separated | Separate normative parts clearly from informative parts. | ||
FI | Part 4 | te | The proposed standard was designed from the start to be capable of faithfully representing the pre-existing corpus of word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that are encoded in binary formats defined by Microsoft Corporation. However, the proposed standard does not fully describe these binary formats. The referencing of unexplained backward compatibility modes poses problems for third party implementers | Describe the binary formats or move the references to the informative parts of the standard. | ||
FI | Part 4:
2.18.4 |
te | WordProcessingML specifies border styles in Part 4 "2.18.4 ST_Border" with a list of graphical borders which can be used as borders in objects. The list is restricted to the enumeration values shown and the actual content of each style is presented in example images. Restricted list is not culturally neutral and the content (images) is insufficiently defined. | Allow other values in the list. Define the content with better precision. | ||
FI | Part 4:
2.2.1 2.5.2.23 5 6 6.4.3.1 |
te | ISO/IEC 8632 is the ISO standard for 2-dimensional computer graphics metafiles. SVG is the W3C Recommendation for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Instead of using ISO/IEC 8632 or W3C SVG, the proposed standard refers to Windows Metafiles, Enhanced Metafiles, DrawingML, and VML. Even though the use of ISO/IEC 8632 or W3C SVG is possible, conforming implementation must support also all defined proprietary graphic formats. | Remove all references to proprietary formats from normative parts and use ISO/IEC 8632 and/or other state of the art graphic formats where applicable. | ||
FI | Part 4:
2.2.1 2.3.3 2.5.2.23 6.1 |
te | VML is specified as being a required part of the proposed standard for example in Part 4 "2.2.1 Document background", "2.3.3. Run Content" and "2.5.2.23 picture". This forces a conformant implementation to support VML fully and it is contradictory to the wording in Part 4 "6.1 VML" where it says:" VML should be considered a deprecated format included in Office Open XML for legacy reasons only and new applications that need a file format for drawings are strongly encouraged to use preferentially DrawingML". | Remove VML from all normative parts and use current state of the art graphic format. Move backwards compatibly proprietary VML format to the informative part. | ||
FI | Part 4:
2.3.1.8 2.4.7 6.1.2.7 |
te | The proposed standard uses bitmasks instead of separate attribute values, which is problematic for extensibility and the use of standard XML tools. | All bitmasks should be converted to single attributes. | ||
FI | Part 4:
2.18.27 |
te | The proposed standard defines a non-standard unit for measurement in Part 4: 'eight of a point' (2.18.27). Also the proposed standard should use SI units instead of e.g. inches where applicable. | All used units should be standard or widely used units. | ||
FI | Part 4:
2.18.51 |
te | The proposed standard requires the use of a fixed list of numeric language codes in Part 4 (2.18.51 ST_Lang). One can use the ISO 639 standard but it is restricted only to two letter codes. Even though the use of ISO 639-1 is possible, conforming implementation must support also the proprietary numeric language list. | Allow only the use of ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 for language codes with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 letter code for refinement. Move backwards compatibly elements to the informative part. | ||
FI | Part 4:
3.17.4.1 |
te | ISO 8601 is the ISO standard for date and time representations. Part 4 (3.17.4.1 Date Representation) of the proposed standard defines that dates must be represented as numeric codes counting from 1900 or 1904 which is defined in ISO 8601 as duration. The proposed standard also incorrectly define the year 1900 as a leap year. | Use dates as defined in the ISO 8601 standard, do not use ISO 8601 duration format. Move backwards compatibly elements to the informative part. | ||
FI | Part 4:
3.17.4. |
te | The missing support in SpreadsheetML for dates before 1900 is very problematic for some spreadsheet uses such as historical data. | Change SpreadsheetML to allow the storing of dates prior to January 1st 1900. | ||
FI | Part 4:
7.1 |
te | The proposed standard defines non-standard format for mathematical expressions. E.g. MathML is the W3C Recommendation for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. | Use current state of the art mathematical format. Proprietary mathematical format should be defined in the informative part. | ||
FI | Part 4:
4.4 |
te | The proposed standard defines non-standard format for slide transitions. E.g. SMIL is the W3C Recommendation for synchronized multimedia presentation. | Use current state of the art multimedia presentation format for slide transitions. |
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