Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 7-Feb-05

[Lars Oppermann <Lars.Oppermann@Sun.COM>]

MINUTES OF THE OASIS OPEN OFFICE XML FORMAT TC MEETING
FEBRUARY, THE 7TH, 2005, 4PM GMT – 5:00PM GMT


1. Attendees

Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
Gary Edwards <garyedwards@yahoo.com>
Lars Oppermann <lars.oppermann@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
David Faure <faure@kde.org>
Patrick.Durusau <Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org>, SBL

Regrets:
Tom Magliery <tom.magliery@blastradius.com>, BlastRadius


2. Acceptance of Minutes of the January, the 24th meeting

The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.


3. Action Items

Lars: clarify mimetype registration with OASIS staff contact
   - in progress, waiting for OASIS
Lars: get certification from Sun
   - in progress
Gary: follow up with OOo marketing projekt on logo
   - in progress
Michael: collect certifications
   - in progress


4. Status of OpenDocument Specification

Public review phase is finished, some comments have to be addressed.


5. TC Discussion

5.1 Use of Forign Namespaces (SVG)

Various people have commented on OpenDocuments use of other namespaces, 
when the respective schemas are not defining attrivutes that are reused 
in OpenDocument in a globaly visible namespace. OpenDocuments design 
choice to add those attributes (e.g. svg:width) in the namespace of the 
containing specification can be viewed as namespace pollution.
The TC has thus decided to use a 'container-namespace' which holds 
anonymous attributes from other specifications that are not available 
outside of their respective elements.
This an example of a container namespace:
urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:svg-compatibility:1.0
This will be used for xsl-fo too, in the xforms case we will discuss the 
issue with the respective w3c group

5.2 Formula Syntax

The TC aknowledges the benefits of an open formula specification for 
spreadsheets as proposed by David A. Wheeler and others. This however 
should be an additional effort and is outside the current scope of this 
TC. David has started an 'OpenFormula' effort which we hope he will 
coordinate with the developers at OpenOffice, KOffice and other 
OpenDocument applications.


6. New Action Items

Gary: establish contact between David and OpenOffice developers

7. Next Conference Call

14-Feb-2005 1600 UTC


~Lars Oppemann