Office 2007 Fails OOXML Test With 122,000 Errors

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Groklaw is reporting that some people have decided to compare the OOXML schema to actual Microsoft Office 2007 documents. It won't surprise you to know that Office 2007 failed miserably. If you go by the strict OOXML schema, you get a 17 MiB file containing approximately 122,000 errors, and 'somewhat less' with the transitional OOXML schema. Most of the problems reportedly relate to the serialization/deserialization code. How many other fast-tracked ISO standards have no conforming implementations?"

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A heck of a job, Brownie!

[llamafirst]

In a blog posting this week, Alex Brown, leader of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) group in charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, revealed that Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the latest specifications of the ISO OOXML draft standard. "Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to ISO/IEC 29500," said Brown in a blog post recounting the process of testing a document against the "strict" and "transitional" schema defined in the standard.

Ahem. Let me be the first to say:
Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job!

You're missing the point...

[voislav98]

which is that it's the standard that's deficient. I'm sure that the standard will soon be "improved" so it conforms with Office 2007

Re:What's the Problem?

[Finallyjoined!!!]

Repost.
OOXML: "The best Standard money can buy"

Re:You're missing the point of an ISO standard

[Anonymous Coward]

write a program that follows this standard:
1. It must print "1" on exit
2. It must print "2" on exit onExit() {
      print("1");
      print("2");
}

What's so hard about that?

Re:You're missing the point of an ISO standard

[MountainMan101]

The microsoft implementation would print "1" on Vista Home, "2" on Professional and "12" on Premium. It prints "4" on Linux just to prove it's linux that is broken. On Mac OS X it would print "1" and then "2" if you paid $50 more.

Actually, what am I saying. A M$ program exiting cleanly.... ha ha

Re:What's the Problem?

[Bu11etmagnet]

The standards which can actually be implemented and have an open source reference implementation, such as the Open Document Format (ODF), will become the de-facto standards at least for archive and long term storage.

I find your lack of realism...disturbing