‘markup consumer’ is pleonastic, and redundant with ‘consumer’ as defined in Part 1, Section 8.2. The introduction of an unneeded layer of (ill-defined) concepts over XML and other parts of OOXML must be avoided.

Remove unneeded terms. See also our general comments about the failed conceptualization in Part 5.

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment FR-0548 (Modified: 2007-12-20) Agreed; the following clarification will be added to the definition of markup consumer in Part 5, §3, page 5, line 18 markup consumer — A tool that can read and parse a markup document and further conforms to the requirements of a markup specification. [Note: Because a markup consumer might be implemented as a markup pre-processor, this term is not coalesced with the definition for a consumer, which would process the XML document output by the markup pre-processor. end note]