Comments on: Standards New Zealand meeting on Office Open XML http://stateless.geek.nz/2007/08/17/standards-new-zealand-meeting-on-office-open-xml/ Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:02:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Richard Parry http://stateless.geek.nz/2007/08/17/standards-new-zealand-meeting-on-office-open-xml/comment-page-1/#comment-2046 Richard Parry Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:43:08 +0000 http://stateless.geek.nz/2007/08/17/standards-new-zealand-meeting-on-office-open-xml/#comment-2046 The question is, will you recommend OOXML or what? I mean, you're probably going to recommend Open Office's XML standard, rather than Microsoft's, but the decision should probably be around which is the better standard :) I've done quite a bit of looking into this for government, it's a thorny issue. From a government issue side of things the most important thing is that the documents have an open, self describing standard and both comply to that. Good luck :) But I suspect that Standards NZ would be committing veritable suicide to suggest that Microsoft's version wasn't a standard in some way, because regardless of what they think the world will use it anyway. The good news is that, unlike .doc, this one's actually open in that it's got a published standard and a self describing format. The question is, will you recommend OOXML or what? I mean, you’re probably going to recommend Open Office’s XML standard, rather than Microsoft’s, but the decision should probably be around which is the better standard :)

I’ve done quite a bit of looking into this for government, it’s a thorny issue. From a government issue side of things the most important thing is that the documents have an open, self describing standard and both comply to that.

Good luck :) But I suspect that Standards NZ would be committing veritable suicide to suggest that Microsoft’s version wasn’t a standard in some way, because regardless of what they think the world will use it anyway. The good news is that, unlike .doc, this one’s actually open in that it’s got a published standard and a self describing format.

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