Re: [office] Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 8-Dec-03

[Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>]

David,

Paul Grosso wrote:
> At 17:07 2003 12 12 +0100, David Faure wrote:
> 
>>On Friday 12 December 2003 16:55, Michael Brauer wrote:
>>
>>>Discussion of Work Package 10 Document Settings
>>>-----------------------------------------------
>>>The TC discussed the proposal for the representation of cursor 
>>>positions. While the proposal will be suitable for representing cursor 
>>>positions in office application WYSIWYG views, it won't be suitable for 
>>>representing cursor positions in other views, like XML tree or text 
>>>views. For this reason, the TC unanimously agreed to represent cursor 
>>>positions with processing instructions. The format of the cursor 
>>>position will be
>>><?openoffice cursor-position name1="value1" name2="value2" ?>,
>>>that is, it will follow the XML element syntax. Applications that 
>>>support multiple views can add an attribute like view-id="[view-name]" 
>>>to specify to which view a cursor position belongs.
>>
>>Can you clarify this proposal? What are those name and values?
> 
> 
> I'll let Michael answer that.

They are just arbitrary name/value pairs in XML attribute syntax that 
can be used by an applications if it has to save additional information 
to restore a cursor position. One example woule be a name of the view if 
an application supports multiple views of a document. Another example 
would be offset required to position the cursor within an attribute 
value as suggested by Paul.

Best regards

Michael