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Subject: Re: [office] preferred view mode upon opening document
This sounds good to me. I only would like to add that whenever an implementor adds an implementation specific value and believes that other implementations could make reasonable use of it, that I then would strongly recommend to submit a proposal to the TC to standardize this value. Michael On 29.10.08 22:09, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote: > > 2. What about a sentence on the specification like: "It is >> recommended that all custom view mode specification documentation is >> made available to enhance documents interoperability" ? >> > > The issue Warren raises is a general issue, not exclusive to view mode > alone. One way to address this globally is two add two things to the ODF > text: > > 1) Where ever something like this occurs, explicitly call the behavior > "implementation-defined". Use that as a uniform label of areas where ODF > allows implementations to implement their own behaviors. So we say > something like "Additional view modes may be used, but they shall be > prefixed by a namespace qualifier not defined by this standard. The > behavior of such view modes is implementation-defined". > > 2) Then in the conformance clause, we add language like: "An > implementation shall be accompanied by a document that defines all > implementation-defined and locale-specific characteristics and all > extensions." (That is the language directly out of ISO/IEC 9899:1999 C > Programming Language. You can see here what one implementation created to > define its "implementation-defined" features: > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C-Implementation.html > > We don't need that exact language, but you get the idea. A standard can > allow implementation-defined behavior, but can also require that these be > documented. If we're going to do this, I'd rather we do it pervasively in > the standard rather than just in the view mode attribute. > > What do TC members think? > > Regards, > > -Rob > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php > -- Michael Brauer, Technical Architect Software Engineering StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems GmbH Nagelsweg 55 D-20097 Hamburg, Germany michael.brauer@sun.com http://sun.com/staroffice +49 40 23646 500 http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering
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