NoOOXML

BoycottNovell has published a copy of the final OOXML specification! It seems that ISO does not want the public to review the broken specification before it is released. One country should just continue to appeal, and submit another complain, using the date of distribution of the specification inside ISO SC34 as the basis for a 2 months appeal. Appeals are not finished, you will see.

Meanwhile, you could start to check if the approved comments are well integrated in the "specification":

1. 1080.pdf
2. OfficeOpenXML-WordprocessingMLArtBorders.zip
3. OfficeOpenXML-SpreadsheetMLStyles.zip
4. OfficeOpenXML-DrawingMLGeometries.zip
5. OfficeOpenXML-RELAXNG-Strict.zip
6. OfficeOpenXML-XMLSchema-Strict.zip

The specification contains 'legacy' parts to be compliant with the existing bugs of one vendor:

For legacy reasons, an implementation using the 1900 backward compatibility date base system shall treat 1900 as though it was a leap year. [Note: That is, serial value 59 corresponds to February 28, and serial value 61 corresponds to March 1, the next day, allowing the (non-existent) date February 29 to have the serial value 60. end note] A consequence of this is that for dates between January 1 and February 28, WEEKDAY shall return a value for the day immediately prior to the correct day, so that the (non-existent) date February 29, 1900, has a day-of-the-week that immediately follows that of February 28, and immediately precedes that of March 1, 1900.

Don't write standards for one vendor!