style name uniquness

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

Hi,

David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 January 2006, Lars Oppermann wrote:
>> Unique Names for Automatic Styles:
>> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200512/msg00020.html
>> currently, the specification does not require the name of automatic 
>> styles to be unique, for styles that are defined in styles.xml and in 
>> content.xml.
>> A future version of the spec should at least contain a 
>> 'SHOULD'-assertion on style names being unique.
>> Style names are also not required to be unique across different 
>> style-family, which could be a potential problem for implementors.

The current wording in the ODF 1.2 spec (section 15.1.1) is:

"The style:name attribute identifies the name of the style. This 
attribute, combined with the style:family attribute, uniquely identifies 
a style. The <office:styles>, <office:automatic-styles> and 
<office:master-styles> elements each must not contain two styles with 
the same family and the same name.

For automatic styles, a name is generated during document export. If the 
document is exported several times, it cannot be assumed that the same 
name is generated each time.

In an XML document, the name of each style is a unique name that may be 
independent of the language selected for an office applications user 
interface."

What about changing the last two paragraphs to:

"In an OpenDocument document, the name of each style is a unique name 
that may be independent of the language selected for an office 
applications user interface.

Note: For automatic styles, a name is generated during document export. 
If the document is exported several times, it cannot be assumed that the 
same name is generated each time. It is recommended that applications do 
not generate names that are used already for styles with the given 
family contained in the <office:styles> element of the same document."

Best regards

Michael


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