Re: [office] ODF 1.2 draft 7 - table chapter

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Eike,

Just quickly but looking at ST_CalendarType (Calendar Types) in ISO/IEC 
29500 I see:

gregorian (Gregorian) Specifies that the Gregorian calendar, as defined 
in ISO
8601, shall be used. This calendar should be localized
into the appropriate language.

gregorianArabic (Gregorian Arabic Calendar) Specifies that the Gregorian 
calendar, as defined in ISO
8601, shall be used.
The values for this calendar should be presented in
Arabic.

gregorianMeFrench (Gregorian Middle East French
Calendar)
Specifies that the Gregorian calendar, as defined in ISO
8601, shall be used.
The values for this calendar should be presented in
Middle East French.

gregorianUs (Gregorian English Calendar) Specifies that the Gregorian 
calendar, as defined in ISO
8601, shall be used.
The values for this calendar should be presented in
English.

gregorianXlitEnglish (Gregorian Transliterated
English)
Specifies that the Gregorian calendar, as defined in ISO
8601, shall be used.
The values for this calendar should be the
representation of the English strings in the
corresponding Arabic characters (the Arabic
transliteration of the English for the Gregorian
calendar).

gregorianXlitFrench (Gregorian Transliterated
French)
Specifies that the Gregorian calendar, as defined in ISO
8601, shall be used.
The values for this calendar should be the
representation of the French strings in the
corresponding Arabic characters (the Arabic
transliteration of the French for the Gregorian
calendar).

hebrew (Hebrew) Specifies that the Hebrew lunar calendar, as described
by the Gauss formula for Passover [CITATION] and The
Complete Restatement of Oral Law (Mishneh Torah),
shall be used.

hijri (Hijri) Specifies that the Hijri lunar calendar, as described by
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Islamic
Affairs, Endowments, Da‘wah and Guidance, shall be
used.

japan (Japanese Emperor Era) Specifies that the Japanese Emperor Era 
calendar, as
described by Japanese Industrial Standard JIS X 0301,
shall be used.

korea (Korean Tangun Era) Specifies that the Korean Tangun Era calendar, as
described by Korean Law Enactment No. 4, shall be
used.

none (No Calendar Type) Specifies that no calendar should be used.

saka (Saka Era) Specifies that the Saka Era calendar, as described by
the Calendar Reform Committee of India, as part of
the Indian Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, shall be
used.

taiwan (Taiwan) Specifies that the Taiwanese calendar, as defined by
the Chinese National Standard CNS 7648, shall be
used.

thai (Thai) Specifies that the Thai calendar, as defined by the
Royal Decree of H.M. King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) in
Royal Gazette B. E. 2456 (1913 A.D.) and by the decree
of Prime Minister Phibunsongkhram (1941 A.D.) to
start the year on the Gregorian January 1 and to map
year zero to Gregorian year 543 B.C., shall be used.

Apologies for the formatting but I don't (yet) have a useful copy of ISO 
29500.

Does that help?

I will probably have comments and notes in the next version if not sooner.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

PS: Which raises the interesting issue of what we should do if we find 
one or more of these definitions sufficient? Should we simply cite the 
existing definition? Or for that matter, do we really need to re-define 
Add? Seems like one definition may be enough. Assuming they are 
semantically equivalent. May not be so I am not making a claim that they 
are. But I do think we need to look to see.


Eike Rathke wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> On Friday, 2008-10-24 13:28:39 +0200, Michael Brauer wrote:
>
>   
>> Niklas' has reviewed the table chapter and related attributes. He has  
>> added his suggestions/comments directly to a draft with change tracking  
>> enabled. It is attached.
>>     
>
> If you need further information on number style elements and attributes
> we additionally discussed during your visit to Hamburg, please ask me if
> there's anything left to be clarified.
>
> Btw, regarding definitions of various calendars it seems to be hard to
> find normative references for any of them. You mentioned that ISO has
> a standard about the Gregorian calendar, I found only ISO 8601 that
> seems to specify that it is the calendar as specified by Pope Gregory
> XIII in 1582, and a few dates as reference points such as the metric
> convention being signed on 1875-05-20 and 2000-01-01 being Saturday are
> defined. Is that what you were referring, or is there something else?
> I don't have a copy of the full standard at hand.
>
>   Eike
>
>   

-- 
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)