This article will have to topics - one about extending OOXML using the built-in extension mechanisms and one about extending OOXML itself. Using built-in mechanisms As I have written about earlier OOXML has a (fun) part containing mechanisms for extending OOXML with vendor/domain-specific ex... [More]

Today news broke that ANSI (the US national standardisation guys) recently voted on the subject of approving OOXML as an "American National Standard". The text of the ballot was: Approval to Adopt the International Standards listed below as American National Standards: ... [More]

I thought I’d try to outline a bit what we actually did and what constituted our work in Prague. The agenda framing our work throughout these three days was this: Opening 2009-03-24 09:00 Roll call of delegates Adoption of the agenda Schedule for publication of reprints or T... [More]

Wow – this has been a tough week. I arrived at the hotel here in Prague (I am currently waiting in Prague Airport for my flight back to Copenhagen) at around 21:00. I met Doug in Copenhagen and flew with him to Prague and in the airport we ran into Kimmo. After 15 minutes in my hotel room I ... [More]

One of the most pressing matters we had to deal with in Okinawa was a question raised by quite a few people including members of the national body of Switzerland as well as hAl on the blogs of Alex Brown, Doug Mahugh and yours truly: How can you tell if a document is generated using the original ... [More]

  Last week (week 4 of 2009) we had the first face-2-face meeting in SC34/WG4 on the Japanese island of Okinawa. Since there is quite a big overlap between the participants of WG4 and those of WG5, the two groups meet at the same time and place to minimize travel costs and time awa... [More]

Having a bit of time on my hands while attending the SC34/WG4-meeting in Okinawa, I thought I'd write up a blog post I have wanted to write in quite some time. The reason for me doing this was a requirement I am often presented by CIBER's customers - export my data to Excel. The data they want us t... [More]

On Friday, October 24th the Danish mirror-committee to JTC1/SC34 had its bi-monthly meeting. On the agenda was, amongst other things, assignment of participants to the newly created working groups in JTC1/SC34, WG4 and WG5. For those of you not familiar with the establishment of these two gro... [More]

Just before OOXML was approved in JTC1/SC34, a lot of us spent a lot of time discussing the differences of between Sun's CNS, IBM's ISP and Microsoft's OSP. Specifically, a thread on Oliver Bell's blog dealt with this topic. The post was called "The OSP will apply to future ve... [More]

This just in ... The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard after appeals by four national standards bodies against the approval of the documen... [More]