Use of MCE in OOXML

[Shawn Villaron]

I'll see what I can do about getting some sample Strict files; it'll take a few weeks ( probably after the first of the year ) as we're still coding.

As for the default question, that's still an open issue.  We'll be taking input from customers, vendors, etc., to determine what makes the most sense.  In any regard, the Strict version of the files will be first class, just like the Transitional version ( you can programmatically generate it, it can be set as the default, etc. ).

-----Original Message-----
From: eb2mmrt at gmail.com [mailto:eb2mmrt at gmail.com] On Behalf Of MURATA Makoto
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 5:13 PM
To: Shawn Villaron
Cc: SC34
Subject: Re: Use of MCE in OOXML

Shawn,

Thank you for detailed report.

> Regarding conformance classes, Office "15" will introduce the ability 
> to save Word, Excel and PowerPoint files using the "Strict" 
> conformance class; the applications will continue to support saving to the "Transitional" conformance class.

I have thought that  Office "15" will use MCE for embedding transitional features in strict OOXML.  Or, do you throw away transitional features completely when transitional documents are converted to strict?  Is the default mode "strict" or "transitional"?

Regards,

Makoto