India Decides to Vote "No" For OOXML

Indian writes to mention that after an intense meeting at Delhi's Manak Bhawan the 21-member technical committee has decided to vote against Microsoft's Open Office Extensible Mark Up Language (OOXML) standard at the September meeting of the International Standards Organization (ISO). "Microsoft said it respects the government's decision. 'There were only three options "Yes", "No" and "Abstain" to be taken and we respect the government's decision,' Microsoft's legal affairs head Rakesh Bakshi said. He, however, added that India's 'No' vote will become a 'Yes' if Microsoft is able to resolve all technical issues with OOXML before the ballot resolution committee of ISO."

Comments

No need to worry...

[PinkyDead]

There's actually a simple XSL template that removes all the errors from the OOXML documents:

<xsl:template match='/'/>

Re:minor gripe

[Fred_A]

I think it's because of the name MOO-XML (Microsoft Office Open XML) that India voted against, since they found it offensive.