Singapore votes Approve with
Comments.
Comments
Singapore is supportive of having OOXML
as an ISO/IEC standard as we believe it would facilitate the exchange of
electronic office documents.
However, we are concerned with the lack
of sufficient detail in the specification for a number of attributes, functions
and features used within the standard. These include, but not limited to, the
use of the following legacy tags:
a) footnoteLayoutLikeWW8
b) lineWrapLikeWord6
c) mwSmallCaps
d) shapeLayoutLikeWW8
e) autospaceLikeWord95
f) useWord2002TableStyleRules
g)
useWord97LineBreakRules
To be open and useful to the end users,
the standard should fully define these aspects to enable the specifications to
be implemented unambiguously by third party developers.
In addition, we also note that the
specification is inconsistent with the ISO 8601:2004 “Representation of Dates
and Times” in the definition of the leap year, in the introduction of the
attribute feature ‘date1904’. While recognizing the intent to address the
backward compatibility with previous applications, the attribute has complicated
the specification and burdens developers with supporting legacy features which
are non-constructive.
Ecma TC-45 has made a public commitment to look at ALL comments submitted with Yes, No, and Abstain votes during the balloting process. We would thus like to see ECMA address all the above comments and resolved them as part of the ratification process as an ISO/IEC standard.
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