Re: [office] Revised ODF 1.2 Part 1 Public Review Ballot Motion

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <andreas.guelzow@concordia.ab.ca>]

Providing a standard in the language it intends to standardize only
works if we assume everybody already agrees. If I were going to write a
description for the grammar and vacabulary of a new language, it would
be useless to give that document in that language, since nobody could
read it yet. Similarly, with ODF1.2. You can only know what an ODF1.2
document truely says if you already know how to speak ODF1.2.

Andreas

PS If you go to the HTML4.01 standard it says
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HTML 4.01 Specification
W3C Recommendation 24 December 1999
This version:
        http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224
        (plain text [794Kb], gzip'ed tar archive of HTML files [371Kb],
        a .zip archive of HTML files [405Kb], gzip'ed Postscript file
        [746Kb, 389 pages], gzip'ed PDF file [963Kb])
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The plain text is listed first. (It is not really surprising that they
show you the html version if you access it through the web.)