How has the verification of conformity to OOXML standard proposed to be done and has it been done till today by an independent third party
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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment GR-0002 (Modified: 2008-01-09) The development of an Office Open XML specification conformance test suite for interoperability is an excellent suggestion. The usefulness of a reference implementation is clear from the work of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11. The majority of ISO, IEC and JTC 1 standards exist without conformance test suites or reference implementations, and these topics are not covered in the JTC 1 Directives; however we agree that the creation of a test suite would be a useful follow-up activity. Although no reference implementation or interoperability test suite is available at this time, a growing number of implementations of ECMA-376 are becoming available, including those released by Apple (Mac OS X Leopard, iWork 08, iPhone), Adobe (InDesign), Microsoft (Office 2007, Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000, Office 2008 Mac OS X), Novell (Suse Open Office) , Google (Search / Preview), Mindjet (MindManager), Intergen, OpenXML/ODF Translator (Open Source project on Sourceforge), Dataviz (DocumentsToGo on Palm OS, MacLinkPlus on Mac OS X Leopard), NeoOffice, Altova (XMLSpy), MarkLogic (XML Content Server), Datawatch (Monarch Pro), QuickOffice (QuickOffice Premier 5.0 on Symbian), Altsoft (XML2PDF Server 2007) and those under development by Corel (WordPerfect), AbiWord, Gnome (GNumeric), Xandros, Linspire, Turbolinux and others. These implementations are now available on many platforms, including Linux, the Macintosh, Windows, and handheld devices (PalmOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile). If there were a common forum for these implementers to share their test suites, the community as a whole would benefit. If the requirement for an interoperability test suite or reference implementation is established and shared by National Bodies, SC 34 might initiate appropriate activities as suggested by this comment. Similar Comments: AT-0001 , IT-0002
