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Subject: Re: [office-metadata] Backward compatibility mechanism (achieved by thepreserving of information not understood)
- From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
- To: office-metadata <office-metadata@lists.oasis-open.org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:10:50 -0400
I believe the former was intended. But
keep in mind that ODF 1.0 says that preserving foreign content is only
a "SHOULD". If an implementation does not do this, and
strips out unknown content, possibly metadata, when writing, then round-tripping
of documents between semantically-rich and non-semantically-rich editors
would be suboptimal. So I'd recommend this use case to encourage
us to think about changing the "SHOULD" to "MUST",
or suggest other conventions for allowing such information not to be lost
when exchanging documents among a heterogenous set of editors.
-Rob
Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote
on 06/28/2006 09:35:34 AM:
> Greetings!
>
> Can someone clarify the use case:
>
> Backward compatibility mechanism (achieved by the preserving of
> information not understood)?
>
> ODF already specifies that information that is not understood is to
be
> preserved.
>
> Or is this a case of where ODF defined an element and then later
> re-defined an element and metadata would signal which definition should
> be applied? And failing that, simply leave the element alone?
>
>
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