Question for Microsoft about MS-OE376

[caroline arms]

Aarti,

After the mention of addressing DR 16-0014 in part by referring to the
"Normative Variations" in [MS-OE376], I was taking a look at the
document in more detail.
  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff531991(v=office.12).aspx
lists the variations, 1,913 of them.

1.3 Microsoft Implementations
    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff530814(v=office.12).aspx
lists the Office products the document applies to.  The list does not
include Office 2013 or Office 2016 products.

Do the variations actually apply to the more recent versions as well?
If so, it would be helpful to update this list.

Or have some of the variations been eliminated in the more recent
versions of Office or addressed in the new editions of ISO/IEC 29500
(aka Ecma 376)?  In which case it might be helpful to have a separate
document that relates to a newer combination of Office and the spec.

Thanks for any info on this.

Caroline


On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Rex Jaeschke <rex at rexjaeschke.com> wrote:
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> From: Courtenay Inchbald [mailto:c at inchbald.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 12:04 PM
> To: Aarti Nankani <Aarti.Nankani at microsoft.com>
> Cc: Rex Jaeschke <rex at rexjaeschke.com>
> Subject: Re: DR 16-0014 — WML: RSID Issues
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> Dear Aarti,
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> Thank you for your reply.
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> The product team's reply is true for the purposes of running a Combine or a
> Compare (although Word does not object to combining or comparing documents
> with different rsidRoots). However, I am using RSIDs for a different purpose
> in which RSIDs inherited from templates are important. If the note's scope
> is limited to Merge and Compare, it would be helpful to me to say so in
> ECMA-376.
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> Word does not follow the rule in the rsid definition, repeated in the note
> at the end of the definition, that RSIDs are generated from the date. It
> would be helpful to me to add this exception to MS-OE376.
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> Courtenay Inchbald  | T +44 20 8673 5640 | M +44 771 858 3535 | 54 Elmfield
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> On 19 October 2016 at 19:04, Aarti Nankani <Aarti.Nankani at microsoft.com>
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> Hello,
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> For DR 16-0014 — WML: RSID Issues Link
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> We have the following response from the product team.
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> If the RSIDRoot is different then you know nothing about the relationship
> between the two documents.  Even if all of the other RSID’s are the same you
> still know nothing.  It might be that Word copies the RSID list from the
> template into documents based on the template or it might not.  But it
> doesn’t matter.  By changing the RSIDRoot, Word is telling you that it would
> not be fruitful to run a merge between these two document assuming a common
> base.
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> Does this help clarify your question?
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> Thanks,
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> Aarti
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