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Subject: Re: [office] Proposal for basis (YEARFRAC etc.)
Hi David, On Saturday, 2008-04-19 15:01:44 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote: > I propose that basis values be assigned like this: > 0..4 : Excel 2007 as they ACTUALLY ARE. This enables easy transition. > 5..31: reserved (future Excel) > 32..36: OOXML spec'ed basis algorithms. basis 34 = basis 2, basis 35 = basis 3, > since those happen to be identical. > [...] > > This way, if someone is reading in an actual OOXML file (as opposed to a file > written by Microsoft Office 2007), they could trivially translate it by > adding/subtracting offsets. Since no one uses OOXML at this time, > and it's not clear that they will, I think that's a reasonable approach. This doesn't work, as you can't distinguish between document versions once the file was saved to a different document format, including ODF. Eike -- OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS
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