DR 09-0312 - WML: RelyOnVML

Jesper Lund Stocholm jesper.stocholm at ciber.dk
Fri Mar 19 07:57:51 CET 2010


Good morning all,

 

We are aware of the details you provide  below. Our concern is that
first of all, the attribute "sticks out" - even though it doesn't mean
that VML can be used within OOXML<S>. But we also feel that the
attribute is redundant in OOXML<S>. VML cannot be used within OOXML<S>
so being able to specify that the content should be "Saved to web" using
VML - when VML cannot be used in OOXML<S> seems wrong. Further VML is a
technology that is (browser-wise) only implemented in Microsoft Internet
Explorer so RelyOnVml is a reference to a technology that only exists in
a Microsoft product. And finally the existence of RelyOnVml in Part 1
makes a dependency to Part 4, since an application encountering this
attribute with a value of "true" in a strict document will need to
implement functionality from Part 4 to honor the original user's intent.

 

So yes, we still wish to have the attribute removed.

 

:o)

 

Jesper Lund Stocholm
ciber Danmark A/S

 

From: Shawn Villaron [mailto:shawnv at microsoft.com] 
Sent: 18. marts 2010 23:10
To: 'SC 34 WG4'
Subject: DR 09-0312 - WML: RelyOnVML

 

This is in regards to the DK defect report. 

 

I believe that there may be a misunderstanding regarding the meaning of
this element as it doesn't relate to the BRM resolution regarding the
limiting of VML to the Transitional conformance class.

 

Many applications have the ability to generate published versions of
their documents that are optimized for viewing on the web.  Microsoft
Word has this ability, and in its web publish format, it has the ability
to use VML as a graphics format.  This ability is exposed to end users.
To keep track of end user preferences, Microsoft Word would write out
the end user preference into the binary and XML versions of the document
so that future publishing would use the previous setting.  And since the
migration to Open XML was about preserving data found in those binary
and XML files, this end user preference was included in the standard and
is represented by the relyOnVML element.

 

To be 100% clear, this element has absolutely no impact on whether or
not VML is allowed to be used in the WordprocessingML document.  

 

In light of this, do we still believe it should be removed?

 

Thanks,

 

shawn

 

 

 

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