According to ‘the content should be processed as if it were the content of the ignored element’s parent’, assuming that ns1 be an ignorable namespace and that consumers that do not understand it are told to process the contents of its elements as if they were the contents of the ignored elements parents, the following fragment: <a> <ns1:ign> ignorable text </ns1:ign> <b> important text </b> </a> would have to be interpreted as: <a> ignorable text </a> We believe that this is highly undesirable. Moreover, it is confusing, and therefore, if this is the intended semantics, the OOXML text should explain it more thoroughly. Else, the text should be fixed to reflect the real intents of the OOXML specification.

Clarify.

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment FR-0554 (Modified: 2008-01-02) Agreed; the comment suggests an assumption that the ignored text’s content should replace the entire content of the parent element; this was not the intent. In the example given in the comment the expected resultant text would be: <a> ignorable text <b> important text </b></a> The following changes will be made to help others from making a similar assumption. Part 5, §8.1, page 9, lines 28­29 A markup producer can indicate to the markup consumer whether the content of an ignored element shall be disregarded together with the ignored element, or if the content should be processed as if it were was the content of the ignored element’s parent , located in the same contextual position as the ignored element .