Re: [office] Formula subcommittee status

[Chris Nokleberg <cnokleberg@tonicsystems.com>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:32:22PM +0200, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
> If it simplifies the processing of formula attributes, then I think it 
> would in fact be a valid option to reserve a certain namespace prefix for 
> the formulas defined by the OpenDocument specification itself. This would 
> on the one hand make simplify the processing of formula attributes, but it 
> would still allow to use other formula languages and would be compatible 
> with the current OpenDocument spcification.

I think this is a reasonable compromise. Something like "OpenFormula
formula attribute values must use the of: namespace prefix, which must
reference the OpenFormula namespace URI. Non-OpenFormula formulas may
not use the of: prefix." Of course it would only simplify
implementations if they only wanted to handle OpenFormula, but as I
said it's a compromise.

Chris