Re: [office-comment] CD01 -- 8.2.1 Referencing Table Cells

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Alex,

Alex Brown wrote:
> Patrick hi
>
> I appreciate the intent in 1.1.
>
> Clearly if ODF 1.1 stated that implementations had to conform to all the
> semantic provisions of the spec, then a large class of legitimate and
> useful applications could never claim to be conformant.
>
> However, the wording in 1.5 went way too far, by allowing *all*
> conforming applications to ignore *anything*.
>
>   
So, you prefer:

> Description URI: http://descriptions.openxmlformats.org/description/base
> An application conforming to this description has a semantic 
> understanding of at least one feature within its
> conformance class.
Well, that certainly is more specific than allowing *all* conforming 
applications to ignore *anything.*

;-)

I think it would be more helpful to puzzle out what we expect of 
"conformance clauses" than to treat them as self-executing (which they 
aren't.)

My assumption has always been that conformance clauses are useful for 
buyers to have a short-hand, "...do you conform to....(standard or part 
of conformance clause)..." rather than having to specify particular 
abilities. Perhaps the customer whats an entire set of abilities.

So the real question is whether or not we have mechanisms that allow 
customers to specify particular sets of features, some, all, particular 
ones and where should that be located?

I understand you to be saying that OOXML has both internal definitions 
(assuming I can ever figure out what "...in a manner consistent with the 
semantic definitions..." (Part 1, 2.6, defining semantic understanding)) 
and allows any number of external definitions.

There appear to be no limitations on external definitions.

I like the idea of specifying conformance classes and using URIs, etc. 
so there is merit in the mechanism. I am less certain that what you have 
proposed is any more specific than what we have now. That seems to me to 
be a different issue that isn't addressed by how a conformance class is 
specified.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)