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Subject: [OASIS Issue Tracker] Updated: (OFFICE-3383) ODF 1.2-1 5.5.6<office:change-info> content overkill
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Oliver-Rainer Wittmann updated OFFICE-3383:
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Proposal:
Dennis' proposal:
1. Remove the provision for <text:p> or, if there are actually implementations that exist for this, deprecate it.
2. Adopt <dc:description> as the optional companion to the <dc:creator> and <dc:date> elements that are already employed. This is all metadata.
Oliver's proposal:
Still allow <text:p> elements as comments for tracked changes, but restrict the child elements of the <text:p> element which occurs inside the <office:change-info>.
was:
1. Remove the provision for <text:p> or, if there are actually implementations that exist for this, deprecate it.
2. Adopt <dc:description> as the optional companion to the <dc:creator> and <dc:date> elements that are already employed. This is all metadata.
Fix Version/s: ODF-Next
(was: ODF 1.2 CD 06)
OpenOffice.org and Oracle Open Office support the feature to apply a comment to tracked changes. Such a comment is stored as <text:p> elements in the <office:change-info> elements. This feature is in OpenOffice.org since version 1.0 and since OpenOffice.org 2.0 - the first OpenOffice.org version which supports ODF - this ODF feature is been implemented.
The OpenOffice.org feature is may be not so easy to find in the user interface:
- If you have a text document with tracked changes in OpenOffice.org, you have to open the the "Accept or Reject Changes" dialog (Menu Edit - Changes - Accept or Reject...). Then you need to select a tracked change and to open its context menu via a click on the right mouse button. In this context menu you have the entry "Edit Comment" which opens a dialog to insert/edit a comment for this tracked change.
I have to admit that OpenOffice.org only allows to insert one or more paragraphs without any formatting as comments to tracked changes. But, I also have to mentioned that the intention to have here <text:p> elements is that the comments can contain formatting etc. I think it is clear that not all possible content which is possible inside a <text:p> makes sense inside the <office:change-info> element.
Thus, my proposal for this issue is:
Still allow <text:p> elements as comments for tracked changes, but restrict the child elements of the <text:p> element which occurs inside the <office:change-info>.
As this issue is not serious and both proposals would be incompatible with ODF 1.1 I vote for solving this issue in the next version of ODF.
> ODF 1.2-1 5.5.6 <office:change-info> content overkill
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> Key: OFFICE-3383
> URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-3383
> Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Public Review
> Affects Versions: ODF 1.2 CD 05
> Reporter: Dennis Hamilton
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: ODF-Next
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> The <office:change-info> element occurs within each of the three forms of <text:changed-region> element as a source of identifying information concerning the change being tracked. It is not part of the tracked-change material itself.
> In addition to the basic identifying information, there may be one or more <text:p> elements for commentary about the change.
> This is serious overkill. Not only can almost any possible content be introduced this way, but change tracking, index marks, tables of content, etc., are admissible.
> It makes no sense to provide such a general provision for arbitrary text in what is basically a descriptive comment that may not even be implemented by any producers at this time. It is also not something that needs to be subject to the treatment of presentation in the same way as document content, including application of styles, incorporation of dynamic fields, cross-referencing, etc.
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