Re: [office-accessibility] style information confusion.

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Dave,

Dave Pawson wrote:
> In the 1.1 standard, and in a test document I generated using open office,
> I can find XML such as:
> 
> <style:style style:name="Heading_20_1" style:display-name="Heading 1"
> style:family="paragraph" style:parent-style-name="Standard"   ....>
> 
>         <style:text-properties  fo:font-size="18pt" 
> fo:font-weight="bold" .../>
>      </style:style>
> 
> I.e. I can determine that any paragraph with a style name of 
> Heading_20_1 is
> to the human, Heading 1 style.
> 
> In our guidelines, this information is missing.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is because our document is corrupted in some way,
> or because I'm using Open office.

Neither nor. ODF knows a style name that is an XML NCName and that is 
used to link styles to paragraphs, etc. It further knows a display name 
that contains the name of the style as the user has seen it. This 
display name may not only contain characters a NCName must not contain 
(for instance whitespace characters), it further may be localized. That 
means, an application with an English user interface may use an English 
name, while an application with a French user interface may use a French 
display name. If you load the English document into an application with 
French user interface, the application may exchange the display name to 
a French one, if it actually knows a French name for the style specified 
by the NCName. If it does not know such a style, it will display the 
English display name.

The reason we have two style names is actually that the limitation to an 
NCName is reasonable from the XML perspective, but not from the user 
perspective.

> 
> Reason.
> 
> I'm trying to determine if an ODT document instance has a rational 
> hierarchy,
> i.e. heading 2 follows heading 1 etc.

Whether such a hierarchy exists depends on the author of the document. 
ODT does not enforce this.

> 
> In our guidelines I can't find such information.
> 
> Any suggestions please, or is this one for the main list?
> 
> regards
> 
> 

I hope this helps.

Michael

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