Office 2007 Fails OOXML Test With 122,000 Errors

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 21, 2008 @08:00AM from the money-greases-the-wheels dept.

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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*XML IS DYING by Anonymous Coward · 2008-04-21 08:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: *XML is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *XML community...
Re:ODF wasn't fast-tracked by mingot · 2008-04-21 13:31 · Score: 0, Redundant

Wrong. ODF was fast tracked.