OASIS Members:
The OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Technical
Committee has submitted the following specification set, which is an approved
Committee Specification, to be considered as an OASIS Standard:
Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Specification v1.1
The text of the TC submission is appended.
You now have until 15 January to familiarize yourself with the submission and
provide input to your organization's voting representative.
On 16 January, a Call For Vote will be issued to all Voting Representatives of
OASIS member organizations. They will have until the last day of January,
inclusive, to cast their ballots on whether this Committee Specification should
be approved as an OASIS Standard or not.
Members who wish to discuss this ballot may do so through
member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org.
In accordance with the OASIS Technical Committee Process, this Committee
Specification has already completed the necessary 60-day public review period as
noted in the submission below.
The normative TC Process for approval of Committee Specifications as OASIS
Standards is found at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#3.4
Any statements related to the IPR of this specification are posted at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/ipr.php
Your participation in the review and balloting process is greatly appreciated.
Mary
Mary P McRae
Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
phone: 603.232.9090
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The following items are hereby submitted pursuant to the OASIS
requirements:
(a)Links to the approved Committee Specification in the TC's document
repository:
The OpenDocument v1.1 specification is available in
1.OpenDocument format:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20848/OpenDocument-v1.1-cs1.od
t
2.PDF format:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20847/OpenDocument-v1.1-cs1.pd
f
3.XHTML format: (zipped):
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20846/OpenDocument-v1.1-cs1_ht
ml.zip
The three schemas defined by the OpenDocument v1.1 specification are also
available separately:
1.OpenDocument v1.1 Relax-NG Schema (extracted from chapter 1 to 16 of the
specification):
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20845/OpenDocument-schema-v1.1
-cs1.rng
2.OpenDocument v1.1 Manifest Relax-NG Schema (extracted from chapter 17 of
the
specification):
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20843/OpenDocument-manifest-sc
hema-v1.1-cs1.rng
3.OpenDocument v1.1 Strict Relax-NG Schema (extracted from appendix A of the
specification):
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20844/OpenDocument-strict-sche
ma-v1.1-cs1.rng
(b)The editable version of all files that are part of the Committee
Specification:
The editable version of the specification is the version in OpenDocument
format
listed above.
(c)Certification by the TC that all schema and XML instances included in the
specification, whether by inclusion or reference, including fragments of
such,
are well formed, and that all expressions are valid;
The contained schemas have been extensively tested, and the specification
document itself was validated against the contained schema. Sample instance
fragments and expressions were reviewed.
(d)A clear English-language summary of the specification
The OpenDocument specification defines an XML schema for office applications
and its semantics. The schema is suitable for office documents, including
text
documents, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents like drawings or
presentations, but is not restricted to these kinds of documents.
The schema provides for high-level information suitable for editing
documents.
It defines suitable XML structures for office documents and is friendly to
transformations using XSLT or similar XML-based tools.
The OpenDocument v1.1 specification is a minor update to the OpenDocument
v1.0
OASIS Standard. Compared to the OpenDocument v1.0 specification, the
OpenDocument v1.1 specification contains a couple of accessibility-related
enhancements, error corrections and clarifications, and very few other minor
enhancements.
(e)A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to similar work
of
other OASIS TCs or other standards developing organizations;
OpenDocument v1.1 supersedes an existing OASIS Standard, OpenDocument v1.0.
(f)Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that they are
successfully using the specification;
1.IBM:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200611/msg00004.html
2.Novell:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200612/msg00026.html
3.OpenDocument Foundation:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200611/msg00003.html
4.Royal National Institute for the Blind
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200611/msg00056.html
5.Sun:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200612/msg00001.html
(g)The beginning and ending dates of the public review(s), a pointer to the
announcement of the public review(s), and a pointer to an account of each of
the comments/issues raised during the public review period(s), along with
its
resolution;
The public review started 27 July 2006, and ended 25 September 2006.
The public review was announced on 27 July 2006:
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200607/msg00015.html
A list of comments/issues raised during the public review, along with their
resolution, is available at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20685/OpenDocument-v1.1-commen
ts.odt
(h)An account of and results of the voting to approve the specification as a
Committee Specification, including the date of the ballot and a pointer to
the
ballot;
The specification was approved as a Committee Specification at 19 October
2006.
The ballot result is available at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/ballot.php?id=1129
(i)An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any earlier
attempts
to standardize substantially the same specification, together with the
originating TC's response to each comment;
No earlier attempt to standardize the same specification was made.
(j)A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the originating TC;
The TC's comment archive is at:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/
(k)A pointer to any minority reports submitted by one or more Members who did
not
vote in favor of approving the Committee Specification, which report may
include statements regarding why the member voted against the specification
or
that the member believes that Substantive Changes were made which have not
gone
through public review; or certification by the Chair that no minority
reports
exist.
The specification was approved unanimously as a Committee Specification.
Therefore, no minority report exists.