MCE Best Practises - draft for review

[MURATA Makoto]

As part of DR 13-0009, we deleted a subclause "§L.7.3.4.2,
“AlternateContent Blocks" from 29500-1.  But we might
want to move some of the deleted text (e.g.,  round-tripping of
ACBs) to this part of themulti-part standard.

Regards,
Makoto

2015-06-27 6:39 GMT+09:00 Chris Rae <chrisrae at exchange.microsoft.com>:

> Hi all – attached is an updated draft of this section. I’ve left
> track-changes on so that we can easily see what changed between the WG4
> meeting and now.
>
> Chris
>
> From: eb2mmrt at gmail.com [mailto:eb2mmrt at gmail.com] On Behalf Of MURATA
> Makoto
> Sent: 09 June 2015 18:35
> To: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
> Subject: Re: MCE Best Practises - draft for review
>
> Chris,
>
> Good start!
>
> First, I think that we should cover foreign OPC parts.  Advantages:
> applications unaware of such foreign OPC parts preserve them, as
> long as they are referenced by relationships.  Disadvantages:
> (1) unaware applications discard them if they are not referenced by
> relationships.  (2) since such foreign parts augument certain points
> within
> existing parts, we have to specify which point in which part is augmented.
>
> Second, in Document Interoperability Initiative event in 2009, Microsoft
> explained extensions of OOXML.  Each presentation provides
> very useful information.   It shows which extension is done by
> using which mechanism.  One option is a combination of a foreign OPC part
> and MCE!  Moreover, I vaguely remember that old EXCEL  rewrites
> application-defined extension elements beyond them, when rows or columns
> are
> deleted or inserted.
>
> The link to the presentation materials of this event is:
>
>   https://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/IS29500/MCE_Best_Practices
>
> Unfortunately, the link to the Excel extension documentation is broken.
> It should cover rewriting app-defined extension elements.
>
>
> Third, an Assembla wiki (
> https://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/IS29500/MCE_Best_Practices)
> summarizes discussions in the past.  "Extensibiity and ISO/IEC 29500" by
> Microsoft (WG4 N0223),
> which is now available at the WG4 E-Committee page is also very useful.
>
> Regards,
> Makoto
>
> 2015-06-10 7:05 GMT+09:00 Chris Rae <mailto:
> chrisrae at exchange.microsoft.com>:
> Hi all - I'm back from paternity leave and have been reminded that I have
> action items for SC34. This is probably the largest one - attached is my
> first draft of some informative text regarding MCE best practises. I began
> with text of Murata-san's and expanded upon it with examples. It's written
> in a very informative "primer" style which I thought best suited the
> subject matter.
>
> We should probably talk about it in more detail in London next week, but I
> wanted to give everyone a chance to read it before then. Although they
> wouldn't be included in the standard itself, I've attached a zip file
> containing the samples included in my document, should anyone wish to
> experiment with them.
>
> See most of you next week,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Praying for the victims of the Japan Tohoku earthquake
>
> Makoto
>



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Praying for the victims of the Japan Tohoku earthquake

Makoto
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