Section 7 makes a series of judgment calls (like ‘enable producers to explicitly guide consumers’) and presents them as objective properties of the contents of Part 5. We contend that these are unsupported assertions, and that the text should make clear that the properties described, and rightfully deemed desirable, were amongst the design objectives of the OOXML text writers, instead of claiming that those objectives have been reached. Since section 7 is informative, we refrained from analyzing further its contents flaws (for example, the fragment cited above makes reference to an undefined behavioral model), and we tagged this comment as editorial.

Rewrite section 7 in such a way that the authors’ intents and objectives are not presented as achievements, or else fully demonstrate that these objectives are fulfilled by Part 5.

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment FR-0544 (Modified: 2007-12-17) Agreed; the following changes will be made to Part 5, §7, page 8, lines 3­6: This Part describes a set of XML elements and attributes that whose purpose is to collectively enable producers to explicitly guide consumers in their handling of any XML elements and attributes not understood by the consumer. These elements and attributes are intended to enable the creation of future versions of and extensions to this Standard, while enabling these desirable compatibility characteristics goals :