Re: 15.7.6 of ODF 1.0

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Makoto,

MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) wrote:
> The last sentence is: "Removing the protection makes these
> sections accessible to the user, but updating the links or the 
> index will not preserve the changes."
>
> I guess that "accessible" means that users can now edit 
> the sections.  However, I do not understand the rest of 
> this sentence.  What is meant by "the changes"?
>
>   
You really should be watching the Chargers vs. Patriots football game. ;-)

It will probably be easier if I quote the entire paragraph:

> Sections marked with the style:protect attribute should not be 
> changed. The user interface should prevent the user from manually 
> making any changes. The style:protect attribute should be set by 
> default for linked sections or indexes. Removing the protection makes 
> these sections accessible to the user, but updating the links or the 
> index will not preserve the changes.
Sections are defined in 4.4 Sections. 

Sections are of two kinds:

1) They group paragraph level content for the assignment of styles.

2) They group content that is acquired automatically from an external source and define styles for the same.

The suggestion that the user interface prevent manual changes is to preserve the styles applied to a section (use #1) and to insure that automatically acquired content has the style defined for that content (use #2). Obviously in the second case, manual changes by a user to a style are not going to be preserved when the content is updated. 

I am less certain why indexes are mentioned here, although they are an example of automatically generated content that has a style defined for the generated content. Manual modification of a style in that circumstance really doesn't make any sense. 

Finally, I think the concluding sentence was attempting to say that since the content in either case is being acquired or generated that any manual change to a style of the *current content* is going to be lost when the content is updated or re-generated.  

Perhaps we should change:

"...but updating the links or the index will not preserve the changes."

to:

"...but those changes will not be preserved when content is updated or 
re-generated."

Yes?

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
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Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
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