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Subject: Re: [office] ODF 1.2 - version info in meta inf?
After some more discussions on this: It seems one central place for the version number is not a good idea. Main reason: OLE objects. When having ODF OLE objects, the streams are also listed in the manifest.xml, but the objects might use an other ODF version. Malte. Malte Timmermann wrote, On 08/20/07 10:34: > Sorry to be unclear. > > I didn't mean meta data. With "meta inf" I meant META-INF/manifest.xml. > > And yes, I also don't think that different streams should/would have > different versions. > > IMHO manifest.xml. should be a central place for such information, since > it will never become encrypted > > Malte. > > > Dave Pawson wrote, On 08/20/07 09:58: > >> On 20/08/07, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg >> <Michael.Brauer@sun.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>>>> Of course I can add the version info to the signatures stream, but I >>>>> wonder if this isn't something that should be available "globally" via >>>>> META-INF? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I can remember asking for the schema version to be added to an instance. >>>> I *thought* that had been accepted. >>>> >>>> Isn't it available Malte? I think it was an attribute on the root element. >>>> If missing, presume prior to 1.2 >>>> >>>> >>> The OpenDocument specification actually defines multiple schemas. The >>> version attribute exists for the schemas used for the content.xml, >>> styles.xml, meta.xml and settings.xml. But right now, it does not exist >>> for the schema used by the META-INF/manifest.xml stream, and it does not >>> exist for the schema used by the new META-INF/documentsignatures.xml stream. >>> >>> >>> >> Is this too complex? >> Since the schemas are published as a group, with a single release, is it >> likely that I will use content.xml from 1.1 and settings.xml from 1.2? >> >> It seems simpler to include a single value on one file (it is metadata >> so perhaps Malte is right to suggest it is added as metadata), rather >> than 4 values in 4 different places? >> >> >> regards >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
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