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Subject: Re: [office-comment] Relative paths in packages manifest (ODF 1.0/1.1)
Alex, all, On 05/16/09 09:52, Alex Brown wrote: > Dear all, > > ODF 1.1 has (s17.5): > > ----b > A relative-path reference (as described in §6.5 of [RFC3987]) that occurs in a file that is contained in a package has to be resolved exactly as it would be resolved if the whole package gets unzipped into a directory at its current location. > ----e > > So, within the manifest.xml file, a reference to content.xml in the parent directory of the META-INF directory would have to be "../content.xml". Correct? That's not correct. The manifest:full-path attribute does not take an IRI. Therefore, the rules regarding the resolution of relative IRIs do not apply. > > I haven't checked them all, but so far I haven't found an implementation that conforms to this provision. Instead, implementations appear to assume that the paths in the manifest are relative to the package root. > > This may be a case where the spec can be usefully brought into line with implementations. > > In ODF 1.2 you need to clarify (and re-word) this, and correct the description of the manifest:full-path attribute (BTW, is a draft of Part 3 of ODF 1.2 available?) A list of the most recent ODF 1.2 draft is available on the TC's home page: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office#odf12 Michael -- Michael Brauer, Technical Architect Software Engineering StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems GmbH Nagelsweg 55 D-20097 Hamburg, Germany michael.brauer@sun.com http://sun.com/staroffice +49 40 23646 500 http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering
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