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Subject: Re: [office] One strictly conforming document?
Rob, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote: > Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote on 02/03/2009 09:15:01 AM: > > <snip> > This is really a red herring. However bad you think interoperability > would be in that case, you must admit that it is made worse, not better, > by extending the documents with private schemas. > Sorry. Did I say anything about private schemas? > Also consider that the problem you describe above can be addressed and is > being addressed by interoperability testing, the work of the OIC TC, etc. > The ODF vendors, most of them at least, have a keen interest in improving > interoperability in that area. However, allow ODF documents to be freely > extended with private schemas without the user's choice, and you have made > the problem much much harder. We can improve interoperability where we > agree on a schema. But it is considerable more difficult to do that when > a private schema is involved, one which perhaps is not disclosed. Remember > a private schema extension is not even required to be made available on > RAND terms, let alone made freely available. > > Well, if I had said that private schemas would help here that might be a valid point. But I didn't. Actually using the ODF metadata mechanism is the "correct" solution in my view to the problem posed. But I pointed it out to merely illustrate that simply saying *ODF* really loud doesn't solve the interoperability issue. Nor does wanting to market ODF mean that it automatically meets any user requirement. Yes, I really do think that ODF 1.2 with the new metadata features, can meet many user requirements but that doesn't mean that I think it meets all user requirements. The question (to me anyway) is whether we develop ODF to meet an ever expanding universe of user requirements or do we promote ODF * (whatever version we are at) as meeting user requirements? I readily concede that I enjoy finding ways that ODF can meet user requirements but for me, user requirements and not the choices of IT departments or marketing strategies of vendors remain primary. Remember that I come from a user community and still think of software as meeting user requirements and not the desires of vendors. It may really be that simple. I don't see the world as a vendor. Hope you are having a great day! 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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