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Subject: Re: [office] Groups - ODF_Element_Naming_01 (ODF_Element_Naming_01.pdf)uploaded
Michael, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote: <snip> > So, <text:p>, <text:h>, <text:a> have been taken from HTML (as well as > href and nohref). All the anim attribues have their direct > counterparts in SMIL, that is a W3C specification but uses other rules > for element and attribute names then XSL-FO, from which we took many > formatting properties. <draw:rect> is our counterpart to SVG's > <draw:rect>. The term "indent" is used in the XSL-FO specification, > and the term "auto", too. > > So, there are probably some situations where we have chosen > inconsistent names or unclear abbreviations when we have added new > elements and attributes. But many of the names you are listing have > been taken from the standards we are based on, because we are not only > reusing the semantics, but also the element and attribute names, and > their terminology. > Well, I think I avoided all cases where we "borrowed" names that retain their original namespaces, such as anything in fo: or smil: for example Granted that when we use anything from a foreign namespace that we are bound to follow its original naming convention. I am not sure the same thinking applies when we simply re-use a name for our own purposes. And I fully agree that we should follow the semantics of borrowed elements as well. That is a very good point. Hope you are at the start of a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
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