RE: [office-comment] office:version (ODF all versions)

["Alex Brown" <alexb@griffinbrown.co.uk>]

Cool!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM [mailto:Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM]
> Sent: 18 May 2009 09:55
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> Cc: Alex Brown; office-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [office-comment] office:version (ODF all versions)
> 
> Alex, all,
> 
> in ODF 1.2, the office:version attribute is mandatory.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Michael
> 
> On 05/16/09 16:35, Alex Brown wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > ODF documents valid to the ODF schema can use the office:version
> > attribute to indicate which version of the spec they claim
> conformance
> > to.
> >
> > However, this attribute is optional (something implementations take
> > advantage of, by sometimes omitting to use it).
> >
> > When this attribute is absent, how can a document consumer know
which
> > version of the spec is meant to be in force?
> >
> > I believe this attribute should be mandatory, otherwise meaningful
> > conformance testing for ODF documents become impossible in cases
> where
> > it is not used.
> >
> > - Alex.
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