OOXML Specs (was RE: ODF 1.2 links)

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>]

It's simply easier to download the ECMA versions corresponding to ISO/IEC 29500.  They are kept synchronized, and the ECMA versions are easier to find and are always free.  This avoids inadvertently paying the exorbitant ISO fees for their specifications.

To obtain the free versions at ISO/IEC, not the ones normally offered from the ISO site, you have to know how to find them on a list of all free versions from ISO and go to the trouble of getting all of the parts and supporting files.  ECMA makes it easier to find all of the latest ECMA-376 in one place.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Kelly [mailto:pmkelly@apache.org] 
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 08:37
To: dev@corinthia.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: ODF 1.2 links

> On 17 Jul 2015, at 10:29 pm, jan i <ja...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> On 17 July 2015 at 17:22, Peter Kelly <pm...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
>>> On 17 Jul 2015, at 6:47 pm, jan i <ja...@apache.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi.
>>> 
>>> For those working on ODF this blog might be of interest.
>>> 
>> https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/17/open-document-format-odf-1-2-published-as-international-standard-263002015-by-isoiec/
>> 
>> ...
>> 
> ODF 1.2 has been around since 2011 as standard, but has just now been voted
> in as ISO standard.

Ok great - and I just noticed near the bottom of the page you linked to it states: "ECMA-376 4th edition is technically aligned with ISO/IEC 29500”.

It’s also probably worth updating the link at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML (which, ironically, is the top hit on google for the search term “OOXML”).

—
Dr Peter M. Kelly
pmkelly@apache.org

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