Re: [office-collab] GCT breaks combatibility

[Tristan Mitchell <tristan.mitchell@deltaxml.com>]

Hi Andreas,

As Frank says, this has already been mentioned as a required change to the proposal should we decide to move forward with it. I believe I mentioned it in the conference call in which I presented our proposal in detail and it should be in the slides from that meeting as well.

Regards,

Tristan

On 26 Apr 2011, at 15:19, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:

> In the past it was possible for a ODF 1.0 or 1.1 consumer to make sense
> out of a ODF 1.2 file by handling unknown elements like foreign
> elements. I strongly believe that this property should be retained
> within ODF 1.x. Unfortunately GCT makes this impossible, considering the
> following example from the GCT proposal (6.12.2):
> 
> <text:p>
> How text is deleted 
> <delta:removed-content delta:removal-change-idref=”ct2”>
> or 
> <text:span text:style=”bold”> removed</text:span>
> like this
> </delta:removed-content>
> from a paragraph.
> </text:p>
> 
> An application considering delta:removed-content a foreign element would
> show:
> How text is deleted or removed like this from a paragraph.
> rather than
> How text is deleted from a paragraph.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andreas J. Guelzow
> Concordia University College of Alberta

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