Flat Packaging Format (Possible OOXML extension 30114-3).

MURATA Makoto eb2m-mrt at asahi-net.or.jp
Thu Sep 20 14:02:18 CEST 2012


Alex,

I will publish this document as a WG4 numbered document.

Regards,
Makoto

2012/7/2 Alex Brown <alexb at griffinbrown.co.uk>:
> Dear all,
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> At the just-finished Brazil meeting I gave a brief presentation outlining a
> proposal for an alternative “flat” representation of OPC packages. Please
> find attached a draft for such a spec.
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> I have included some editorial notes which contain some important queries. I
> have attempted to reverse-engineer the format from what MS-Office does so as
> to give this standard a chance to integrate with the existing OOXML
> ecosystem, and to base it on something which has been implemented. However,
> some guesswork was of course necessary, so feedback would be valuable.
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> A couple of points of particular interest:
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> 1. The namespace in existing implementations contains “microsoft”, and I
> have left this as-is. Apart from the PR dimension I don’t see this as
> significant as Namespace Names are merely arbitrary strings, and I think it
> is more important we plug in to existing files which may be out there then
> start with an incompatible freshly-minted Name (for which I can see no
> benefit).
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> 2. Unfortunately, Microsoft has elected to name one of its elements
> “xmlData”, which violates the spirit – and maybe the letter – of the XML
> Recommendation. I have however left this as-is as most tools in practice do
> not register this phenomenon. Thoughts?
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> - Alex.
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