[OASIS Issue Tracker] Updated: (OFFICE-2334) NEEDS-DISCUSSION:Reference - Rewording needed

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Dennis Hamilton updated OFFICE-2334:
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             Proposal: 
[Introduced 2010-03-18]

Replace section 3.8 Reference in OpenDocument-v1.2-part2-draft25 (or CD02) in its entirety with the following content:

"""
A cell strip consists of cell positions in the same row and in one or more contiguous columns.  

A cell rectangle consists of cell positions in the same cell strips of one or more contiguous rows.

A cell cuboid consists of cell positions in the same cell rectangles of one or more contiguous sheets.

A reference is the smallest cuboid that  (1) contains specifically-identified cell positions and/or specifically-identified complete columns/rows such that (2) removal of any cell positions either violates condition (1) or does not leave a cuboid.

A sparse cell cuboid,  rectangle, or strip os in in which not every (perhaps not any) identifiable cell position determines a definite cell.  Such cell positions are said to be empty cells (section 3.7).  

The definitions of specific operations and functions that allow references as operands and parameters stipulate any particular limitations there are on forms of references, whether the references may be sparse and, if so, how empty cells are interpreted.
"""

  was:"A reference specifies a contiguous set of one or more cells. Such as set of cells may be referred to as a range."

        Fix Version/s: ODF 1.2 Part 2 CD 3
                           (was: ODF 1.2 Part 2 CD 1)
    Affects Version/s: ODF 1.2 Part 2 CD 2
           Resolution:   (was: "A reference specifies a contiguous set of one or more cells. Such as set of cells may be referred to as a range.")

The proposal and the resolution were not applied, so I took another wack at the original problem description:

 1. I have updated the proposal to provide a definition of the cuboid.   This proposal does not deal with all of the ways that a cuboid is obtainable and which forms of Reference Syntax do or do not determine cuboids.  That is to be dealt with in section 4.8.

 2. I have not used "range" at all.  This may need further definition, though I suspect not.

 3. I introduced the notion of sparse reference (one in which there are one or more empty cells) and this may be useful in simplifying other descriptions.  I have avoided any general observations about when sparse references are allowed and how any empty cells are to be handled.

> NEEDS-DISCUSSION: Reference - Rewording needed
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>
>                 Key: OFFICE-2334
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-2334
>             Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: OpenFormula
>    Affects Versions: ODF 1.2 Part 2 CD 1, ODF 1.2 Part 2 CD 2
>            Reporter: Patrick Durusau
>             Fix For: ODF 1.2 Part 2 CD 3
>
>
> Reference currently reads:
> "A reference refers to a cuboid of cells called a range. A special case is a single cell reference, a reference to a single cell."
> Rather:
> "A reference specifies a contiguous set of one or more cells. Such as set of cells may be referred to as a range."
> I am assuming that "cuboid" was used to indicate that a reference can refer only to a contiguous range of cells. 

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