Reopening DR 09-0164: Macros, ActiveX and media types
MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)
eb2m-mrt at asahi-net.or.jp
Tue Apr 20 18:53:01 CEST 2010
Dear colleagues,
I am afraid that we have to reopen DR 09-0164 since we failed to
consider the interactions of media types, macros, and ActiveX.
In Stockholm, we closed DR 09-0164 but we decided to register
three media types as below:
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.document
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.document
In my understanding, MIME entities of these media types do not contain
macros. Document containing such macros are required to have different
file extensions and different media types. So, we need three more media
types such as
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml-macro.document
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml-macro.document
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml-macro.document
For this reason, I believe that the table in 11.3.1, Part 1 has to be
revised: in addition to the macro-free wml media type, we need
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml-macro.document.
On the other hand, MIME entties of these media types may contain
ActiveX programs. Such documents have OPC parts of the
type "application/vnd.ms-office.activeX+xml". Am I right?
Note: This means that we have to first register "application/vnd.ms-office.activeX+xml".
See DR 09-0167.
Cheers,
Makoto
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