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Subject: Re: [office] sub chapter <office:dde-source> in chapter <text:section>lost in ODF 1.2 draft 7-13
Hi Patrick, Ok, got it. Thank you for your patience. Best regards, Oliver. Patrick Durusau wrote: > Oliver, > > Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote: >> Hi Patrick, >> >> sub chapter <office:dde:source> in chapter <text:section> is lost >> between ODF 1.2 draft 7-11 and ODF 1.2 draft 7-12. >> I also did not found its content any more in the rest of the ODF 1.2 >> draft 7-13. >> Any reason why this sub chapter including its content has been deleted? >> > The "content" or "information" was *not* deleted. > > See (in ODF 1.2 draft 7-12) section 4.4.1. > > From 7-11 the section you ask about: > > **** > The |<office:dde-source> element represents DDE linking information for > a linked section.| > > |Note:|| |Because a DDE linked section contains the XML rendition of the > DDE link's content, this information only needs to be processed if > updated data from the DDE link are desired. > > Ed. Note This should be true for <text:section-source> as well. So why > say it for one and not the other? > > **** > > Note the editor's note. > > Then, in 7-12 (and following) also at 4.4.1 > > ***** > > Sections support two ways of linking to external content. If a section > is linked to another document, the link can be through one of the > following: > > * > > A resource identified by an XLink, represented by a > |<text:section-source>| element > > * > > Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), represented by a > |<office:dde-source>| element > > The |<text:section-source>| or |<office:dde-source>| elements occur only > in the alternative and then as the first child element of a > |<text:section>| element. > > A section that links to external content contains a full representation > of the data, so that processors need to understand the linking > information only if they wish to update the contents of the section. > > ***** > > So while it is true that the subsection itself does not appear verbatim > the same, the information that it was meant to convey is more usefully > (at least in my view) reported to potential readers of the specification. > > Unless you wish to suggest that the semantics of the <office:dde-source> > element, despite being defined once in the schema are different when the > element occurs in sections versus tables? See 13.6.6 under common > content for a fuller description of the element. > > I freely concede that the process of defining every element and > attribute once makes proofing (for this round) more difficult and I work > with several versions open at the same time, but in the long run knowing > that if an element or attribute definition change must be made that > while its impact must be traced out that we can make a change confident > that is the only place where the change need be made, I think will help > the TC as it continues to develop ODF. > > Imagine editing an XML schema where "combine" was implied so you don't > know if you have found all the parts of a definition or not. Add to that > the assumption that there are multiple ways to speak of the same > element. And you may or may not know all of them. Just as you would want > to avoid that for the schema, I want to avoid the same thing for the > prose text. > -- ======================================================================= Sun Microsystems GmbH Oliver-Rainer Wittmann Nagelsweg 55 Software Engineer - OpenOffice.org/StarOffice 20097 Hamburg Germany Fax: (+49 40) 23 646 955 http://www.sun.de mailto:oliver-rainer.wittmann@sun.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ======================================================================= Oliver-Rainer Wittmann (od) - OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS
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