Re: [office] Namespace 'of' for formula expressions

["Warren Turkal" <turkal@google.com>]

Amen.

wt

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02
- Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@sun.com> wrote:
> Warren Turkal wrote:
>
> > I am going to use the terminology from the XML namespace standard[1]
> > in this post.
> >
> > I see no harm in allowing different qualified names for a given
> > namespace name. It's XML after all. If your tool so simple that it
> > doesn't understand XML namespaces, then your tool shouldn't be marked
> > compliant with an XML-based standard. Also, people who understand XML
> > would be required to think about qualified names in ODF documents
> > differently than other XML documents if we require the qualified name
> > to be some fixed string.
> >
>
>  I totally agree. Actually, our charter states as one requirement that
>
>  "it [ODF] must be compatible with the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML)
> v1.0 and W3C Namespaces in XML v1.0 specifications,"
>
>  So, an ODF application has to support namespaces.
>
>
>
> >
> > I think that the ODF standard should indicate which qualified names
> > correspond to which namespace names for the purposes of interpreting
> > the standard. However, the ODF standard should not require that
> > certain qualified names be used in all ODF documents.
> >
>
>  That's what we say in section 1.3 Namespaces: "Table 1 lists the namespaces
> that are defined by the OpenDocument schema and their default prefixes." Or
> at least what we try to say.
>
>  So, there is a prefix that we use in the specification and in the schema,
> because without that, we could neither define a (namespace aware) schema nor
> would the specification be interpretable. But it is a feature of XML
> Namespaces and RNG that one can use other namespace prefixes than those used
> in the schema, and I personally see absolutely no reason why we should add
> restriction to ODF here. In particular, all ODF application must have
> implemented namespace support already, so allowing other prefixes than "of"
> for formulas really should not cause any issues.
>
>
>  Michael
>
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