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Posted by: PeterJudge (Friday 2 May 2008, 5:39 PM)

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IBM expert - Brown got it wrong

Rob Weir of IBM has criticised Brown's work in a blog post
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/05/odf-validation-for-dummies.html

Here's a summary:

1) Alex tried to validate an ODF using the wrong version of the schema. OpenOffice 2.4.0 writes out ODF 1.1, not ODF 1.0.
2) He also tried to apply validation rules that ODF does not claim to implement, specifically something called "Relax NG DTD Compatibility". If these checks are disabled, validation works fine.
3) The specific test case Alex used is invalid. If the document was already invalid OOXML, then why do we think that converting it to ODF will lead to anything other than an invalid document?

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