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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>This set of GB defect reports relate to the Document Conformance clause in Part 1. DR-09-0317 also talked about the issue identified in DR-0315, so I’d like to address that issue ( MCE preprocessing ) via that DR.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here is my proposed marked-up text:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h2 style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;mso-list:none'><a name=documentConformance></a><a name="_Toc139874045"></a><a name="_Toc193209299"></a><a name="_Ref193210344"></a><a name="_Toc197336219"><b><span lang=EN-CA>2.4 Document Conformance</span></b></a><b><span lang=EN-CA><o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal>Document conformance is purely syntactic; it involves only Items 1 and 2 in §2.3 above.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='color:blue'>An Office Open XML document is conformant to this part of ISO/IEC 29500 if all of the following conditions hold:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='color:blue'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoListBulletCxSpFirst style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA>A conforming <u><span style='color:blue'>Office Open XML </span></u>document shall conform to the transitional W3C XML Schema or the strict W3C XML Schema (Item 1) <u><span style='color:blue'>after the evaluation of any extensibility mechanisms described by ISO/IEC 29500-3</span></u>, and any additional syntax constraints (Item 2).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListBulletCxSpMiddle style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA>The <u><span style='color:blue'>Office Open XML </span></u>document shall be of category Wordprocessing, Spreadsheet, or Presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListBulletCxSpMiddle style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA>The <u><span style='color:blue'>Office Open XML </span></u>document character set shall conform to the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646:2003, with either the UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding form, as required by the XML 1.0 standard.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListBulletCxSpLast style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA>Any XML element or attribute not explicitly included in ISO/IEC 29500 shall use the extensibility mechanisms described by ISO/IEC 29500-1 and ISO/IEC 29500-3.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Each Part of this multi-part standard has its own conformance clause. The term <span class=Term>conformance class</span> is used to disambiguate conformance within different Parts of this multi-part standard. This Part of ISO/IEC 29500 defines the following document conformance classes:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListBulletCxSpFirst style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span class=Term><span lang=EN-CA>WML Strict</span></span><span lang=EN-CA>,</span><span lang=EN-CA> if the <u><span style='color:blue'>Office Open XML </span></u>document is a conforming document of category Wordprocessing that conforms to the strict <s><span style='color:red'>schema and does not include any features from Part 4</span></s>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListBulletCxSpMiddle style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span class=Term><span lang=EN-CA>SML Strict</span></span><span lang=EN-CA>,</span><span lang=EN-CA> if the <u><span style='color:blue'>Office Open XML </span></u>document is a conforming document of category Spreadsheet that conforms to the strict schema <s><span style='color:red'>and does not include any features from Part 4</span></s>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListBulletCxSpLast style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span class=Term><span lang=EN-CA>PML Strict</span></span><span lang=EN-CA>,</span><span lang=EN-CA> if the <u><span style='color:blue'>Office Open XML </span></u>document is a conforming document of category Presentation that conforms to the strict schema <s><span style='color:red'>and does not include any features from Part 4</span></s>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>In addition, <u><span style='color:blue'>Office Open XML </span></u>documents of conformance class WML Strict, SML Strict, or PML Strict shall not embed documents of conformance class WML Transitional, SML Transitional, or PML Transitional as defined in Part 4.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Document categories Wordprocessing, Spreadsheet, and Presentation are defined in §4.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[<span class=Non-normativeBracket>Note</span>: Other document conformance classes could be defined in the future. <span class=Non-normativeBracket>end note</span>]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[<span class=Non-normativeBracket>Note</span>: A document cannot be of more than one of the above conformance classes. <span class=Non-normativeBracket>end note</span>]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>