style name uniqueness (Re: [office] OpenDocument TC Meeting Minutes 2006-01-09 and 2005-12-19)

[David Faure <faure@kde.org>]

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 18:26, Lars Oppermann wrote:
> Unique Names for Automatic Styles:
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200512/msg00020.html
> currently, the specification does not require the name of automatic 
> styles to be unique, for styles that are defined in styles.xml and in 
> content.xml.
> A future version of the spec should at least contain a 
> 'SHOULD'-assertion on style names being unique.
Yes.

> Style names are also not required to be unique across different 
> style-family, which could be a potential problem for implementors.
Yes, I just hit a problem with a document (generated by OOo upon reading from a .doc)
where a text style and a paragraph style have the same name.
Can we also include in the future version of the spec that style
names should be unique across style families as well?

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