Re: [office] proposal to solve problem with attribute style:default-outline-level

[Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org>]

Morning Oliver.

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:29, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software 
Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> Thus, why do you disagree to my proposal to have this possibility for
> attribute style:default-outline-level, too?
Simple;
ODF isn't a math specification, the spec doesn't have to be 100% 
self-consistent.
ODF should be driven by need of users, not need of the programmer to express 
any and all structure in it.

> > Making validation of this field impossible (due to it not being a number
> > anymore) needs a bit more justification then a weird usecase that is
> > trivial to avoid by any application.
>
> Sure you can. But, this should be specified also in the ODF
> specification. Because otherwise you can't assure that this is avoided
> in future applications supporting ODF. 

What part needs clarification?

> Thus, you would have something 
> special for a certain attribute, which isn't needed, if you would
> support my proposal.

Ehm, now you are confusing me; you are the one that wants to introduce 
something special for a certain attribute. Based on the logic that a numeric 
item is the same thing as a reference to another item in the file.
I'm confused how you can say that these two things are so similar that they 
need the same behavior.
-- 
Thomas Zander

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