My comments on DR 10-0001

[Rick Jelliffe]

MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) wrote:
>> Thinking more in terms of standard error recovery strategies would a
>> useful tool in our toolbelt. This is how the WhatWG are treating HTML for
>> example.
>>     
>
> I think that this approach is ugly.  It is a backdoor for allowing 
> more data and definig semantics.
>
> I might be persuaded if the current situation is already  ugly and 
> we cannot forget broken data.  However, almost no existing OOXML 
> documents contain ISO 8601 cell values.
>
> Do we really want to "allow" documents containing "1900-02-29"?
>   
No, but we do want to make it the problem of the people who can fix it 
(vendors) not that problem of people who cannot fix it (users.)  That 
may require we think differently than we do about projects involving 
stakeholders known to each other.

I don't have a definite opinion.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe