Re: [office] Fw: Proposal: Add multiple cell ranges support toData Pilot

[Kohei Yoshida <kyoshida@novell.com>]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:57 +0800, Zhi Yu Yue wrote:

> 8.9.3 <table:source-cell-ranges> 
> 
> If the source of a data pilot table is a list of cell ranges, the
> <table:source-cell-ranges> element contains information about the cell
> ranges and how the data pilot table gets the data from the ranges.
> Before the source data is processed by the data pilot data, a filter
> may be applied to it. This filter has to be specified by a
> <table:filter> child element. 
> 
> <define name="table-source-cell-ranges"> 
>         <element name="table:source-cell-ranges"> 
>                 <ref name="table-source-cell-ranges-attlist"/> 
>                 <optional> 
>                         <ref name="table-filter"/> 
>                 </optional> 
>         </element> 
> </define> 

I don't see the definition of table-source-cell-ranges-attlist.  I
believe that's an accidental omission.

More importantly, if we can change the existing table:cell-range-address
attribute to allow a list of cell range addresses, instead of just one
cell range like it currently allows, then we won't need to introduce a
new element to define multiple source ranges.  I personally like that
approach better because if we allow both <table:source-cell-range> and
<table:source-cell-ranges> as child elements of
<table:data-pilot-table>, then we would need to specify a desired
behavior if both <table:source-cell-range> and
<table:source-cell-ranges> are given.  IMO limiting to just allowing one
of these elements, instead of allowing both would be a better approach.

What are your thoughts on these points?

Kohei

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Kohei Yoshida - OpenOffice.org Engineer - Novell, Inc.
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