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Subject: Re: [office] proposal to solve problem with attributestyle:default-outline-level
Thomas Zander wrote: > 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. But in this case, it can be easilier achieved with my proposal. > 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? > If my proposal will be rejected, it should be clarified, that applications, which support ODF, don't support the use case I've described. >> 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. No, it isn't something special. Please consider my given example. I'm proposing the same for attribute style:default-outline-level as for any other attribute, e.g. style:list-style-name. I can change my proposal: Instead of introducing new value "none" for style:default-outline-level, I can propose new value "0". Then all possible values of style:default-outline-level are numeric, which you seem to prefer. Thus, the value type of style:default-outline-level will be nonNegativeInteger instead of positiveInteger. Again, can you please answer my question, what do you mean by "Paragraph Style being a numbering style"? Regards, Oliver.
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