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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>As I reported in the past year, Ecma TC46 has been considering updating its OpenXPS standard to point to the soon-to-be-approved 2012 edition of OPC and MCE rather than the original Ecma versions. However, I have since discovered that TC46 has an outstanding action item that impacts such a move.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“IS 29500 Part 2 (OPC) removed element contentType element from the Core Properties Part schema, but did not change the namespace for that schema. As a result, there is no way to distinguish between ECMA-376:2006 and IS 29500 w.r.t Part 2.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The status of IS 29500, especially w.r.t changes in the schema namespaces to indicate breaking changes (possibly as a result of the Defect Report filed by CH) should be monitored, so the XPS spec can be changed to point to IS 29500 at some future point.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I started a private discussion on this with John Haug, who then posted to WG4 on 2012-05-21, “FW: Possible problem with TC46 revising its XPS spec to track 29500:2011 (or 29500:2012, for that matter)”. Jesper then posted a reply.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As the liaison from Ecma TC46, I’d like us to discuss this situation in Brazil, especially as we look at revising MCE and OPC. How do we indicate a change in functionality to these Parts?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rex<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>