Input from Switzerland (CH) re WG4's processing of CH's DRs 08-0012, 08-0013, and 08-0014

[Jirka Kosek]

Rex Jaeschke wrote:

> On the second question:  It is a severe defect that it cannot in all cases
> automatically be determined from OOXML files which version of the
> specification they aim to conform to.  Furthermore, it is a severe defect
> also because it breaks general software for validating XML against schemas,
> because such software must rely on the assumption that the schema namespace,
> together with the version attribute if one is present, uniquely identifies
> the schema to validate against.

Just quick comment: this is very common situation, for example XHTML,
DocBook and TEI have same "problem". Schema has to be determined by
using namespace + additional hint like version attribute. So in this
regard OOXML is not different from other widely used XML vocabularies.

I think that the latest Jesper's proposal about version attribute solves
this issue as producer has to opt-in for ISO 29500 version of OOXML by
explicitly using version attribute.

			Jirka

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