有关OOXML的故事

Pavel Janik : May 19, 18:32 : OOXML workshop with Microsoft and Czech standardisation institute
Pavel Janik先生参加了捷克标准化组织举行的关于微软OOXML的研讨，他的感触颇多，其中，整套标准打印出来有六大本，每本大约壹仟页，差不多是七十五厘米那么高的一个小塔。

BTW - with the help of Dan, Jirka and Filip, we were able to "print" the complete OOXML specification, bind it in six volumes (1000 sheets per volume) and we brought it with us to the workshop. It was a bit heavy, but I was lucky enough to find parking place in very short distance to ČNI offices (without the knowledge of where the offices exactly are, in the centre of Prague, I still can't believe it <!-- s;-) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" title="Wink" /><!-- s;-) --> - have you ever seen 75 cm tall "tower" from paper? We have many photos from the workshop and will publish them as soon as possible, so you'll be able to see it soon.

他看了附录的大约二百页的内容后，就看不下去了，原因：

I have read approx. 200 pages of the specification and I decided to stop, because it is dangerous. The ideas presented in various parts of the specification (like two ways to represent the date - one of them representing dates between 1900 and 20000 and another one to represent dates between 1904 and 20000 where the second one is a complete subset of the first one!) are dangerous to the mental health of the reader. The innovative method of storing the language code (e.g. the decimal integer 58380 into two digit hexadecimal number) is also worth a world-wide patent...

呵呵，我看到的一个电子版的OOXML标准，当时大概是四千五六百页吧，看来这个标准确实是厉害呀，说实在的，Pavel Janik先生认为与会的非微软成员肯定绝大多数人没有通读过这个标准应该是完全可能的，微软也真是个庞大、臃肿的家伙呀，竟然造就了这么个伟大的标准

ccbbs：如果用汉字编写的话可以省起码三分之二回到原帖

不会的，这个你就误解了，之所以这么多，是其中存在极大的标记冗余，这些标记都是此英文字母，真正表义的并不多，所以节省是节省不了多点儿的，现在给大家几张参考照片

看，这就是微软OOXML宝典全集的打印件

看，后面那个用手支撑着脑袋的家伙估计就是微软的吧，感觉他也有些抑郁呀

web123lai：我觉得最郁闷的是把这些材料搬来的家伙回到原帖

呵呵，人家只是例行公事打印一下而已，还浪费了人家标准组织那么多纸，也不知道微软是否肯付这些纸墨钱