Industry records its best practices through standardization. The existing body of document and markup standards represents a compendium of reviewed, approved, and implemented best practices. The work of the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C)9 is especially relevant to XML document formats, since they maintain the core XML standard as well as related standards such as XHTML, CSS2, XSL, XPath, XForms, SVG, MathML and SOAP, the standards that represent the very backbone of XML and XML related technologies.
=== OOXML, however, incorporates very little of the consolidated best practices of the industry. Worse, would-be implementers of OOXML are asked to use Microsoft’s proprietary, legacy formats, even when relevant and superior W3C standards are at hand.
=== OOXML, however, incorporates very little of the consolidated best practices of the industry. Worse, would-be implementers of OOXML are asked to use Microsoft’s proprietary, legacy formats, even when relevant and superior W3C standards are at hand.
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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment IN-0019 (Modified: 2008-01-06) We agree that standards can benefit from appropriate use of other existing standards, and DIS 29500 includes normative references to many standards that have been ratified by ISO/IEC, IETF, W3C, and other standards organizations. The following standards are normatively referenced by DIS 29500: Character Sets from IANA. ISO/IEC 2382.1:1993, Information technology — Vocabulary — Part 1: Fundamental terms. ISO 8601:2004, Information interchange — Representation of dates and times ISO/IEC 10646:2003 (all parts), Information technology — Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS). ISO/IEC 14496-22:2007, Information technology Coding of audio-visual objects Part 22: Open Font Format. RFC 2119, Bradner, Scott, 1997: “Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels”. RFC 2045, Borenstein, N., and N. Freed. “Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies.” The Internet Society. 1996. RFC 2616, Berners-Lee, T., R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, J. Gettys, P. Leach, L. Masinter, and J. Mogul. “Hypertext Transfer Protocol–HTTP/1.1.” The Internet Society. 1999. RFC 3066, Alvestrand, H. “Tags for the Identification of Languages.” The Internet Society. 2001. RFC 3339, Klyne, G. and C. Newman “Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps.” The Internet Society. 2002. RFC 3629, Yergeau, F. “UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646.” The Internet Society. 2003. RFC 3986, Berners-Lee, T., R. Fielding, and L. Masinter. “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax.” The Internet Society. 2005. The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0, defined by: The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 (Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 2006. ISBN 0-321-48091-0). XSLT, Clark, James, "XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0," World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation. 1999. XML, Tim Bray, Eve Maler, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, John Cowan, and François Yergeau (editors). “Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1,” Third Edition. World Wide Web Consortium. XML Base, Marsh, Jonathan. “XML Base.” World Wide Web Consortium. 2001. XML Namespaces, Bray, Tim, Dave Hollander, Andrew Layman, and Richard Tobin (editors). “Namespaces in XML 1.1.” World Wide Web Consortium. 2004. XML Path Language Specification, Version 1.0, W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999 XML Schema Part 0: Primer Second Edition, W3C Recommendation 28 October 2004. XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second Edition, W3C Recommendation 28 October 2004. XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition, W3C Recommendation 28 October 2004. .ZIP File Format Specification from PKWARE, Inc. Similar Comments: BG-0001 , CH-0014 , KR-0018 , NO-0011 , TN-0002
