Re: [office] Associating a shape with another shape as its datasource

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Hi David,

Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
> Dear TC members,
> 
[...]
> 
> So the extra attribute we would need in the described scenario would 
> rather be the document into which the ranges point. Currently, we have 
> two situations:
> 
> * a chart has its own data -> means use the chart itself, i.e. "."
> 
> * a chart takes the data from the container document -> data comes from 
> the parent stream in the package, i.e. ".."
> 
> So, technically I would suggest an xlink:href element instead, that 
> points either to "." or to "..". In addition you could use "../Object 
> 2", where Object 2 is an embedded spreadsheet, text document or whatever 
> "data provider", like you describe in your scenario.

My understanding is that the use cases of the xlink:href attribute for 
KOffice would be ".", ".." and other relative IRIs that reference an 
(embedded) document within the same package. Is that assumption correct?

If yes, then I would suggest that we state in the specification that 
only these IRIs are permitted for an ODF 1.2 document. Otherwise we may 
raise the expectation that even http IRIs do work, that maybe is not the 
case for any implementation.

What is your thought on this?

Best regards

Michael
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