Mime types clarification

[Arms, Caroline]

And the template variants xltx and dotx are the equivalents of potx  -- "volunteer" documents, to use Shawn's term.

Caroline Arms
Library of Congress Contractor
Co-compiler of Sustainability of Digital Formats resource
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/

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From: Shawn Villaron [shawnv at microsoft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:31 AM
To: MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given); e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
Subject: RE: Mime types clarification

Regarding the PresentationML question, yes, these are PresentationML documents:

> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation     pptx
> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow        ppsx
> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template potx

They use different extensions and MIME types as an hint to the consuming application as to what to do with them.  For example, in Microsoft's implementation, you'll see the following behavior:

PPTX --> Open the file for editing and use the editing view
PPSX --> Open the file for viewing and use the slide show view; when slide show concludes, close the application
POTX --> Create a volunteer document using this file as the source template and use the editing view

As for the SLDX, I'd have to go look.  It basically is a slide in a presentation, which, IIRC, is used in slide library scenarios.

-----Original Message-----
From: MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) [mailto:eb2m-mrt at asahi-net.or.jp]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 7:17 AM
To: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
Subject: Re: Mime types clarification

Dear colleagues,

> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation     pptx
> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slide    sldx
> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow        ppsx
> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template potx

What is the differences between these four media types?  Are all of them PresentationML documents?  Are they syntactically the same but do they have different roles?

> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet     xlsx
> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template  xltx

Again, what is the differences between these two?  Are both SpreadsheetML documents?

> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document       docx
> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template       dotx

Again, what is the differences between these two?  Are both WordprocessingML documents?

Cheers,
Makoto