Re: [office] Office-3684

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

<office@lists.oasis-open.org> wrote
on 03/19/2012 11:51:23 AM:

> From: Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>
> To: "'ODF TC List'" <office@lists.oasis-open.org>,

> Date: 03/19/2012 11:55 AM
> Subject: [office] Office-3684
> Sent by: <office@lists.oasis-open.org>
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> Alex Brown writes"

> In 3.10.2 the term "ODF Consumer"
is not defined.


Part 1, section 2.4 says:

"2.4 Consumer

An OpenDocument consumer is a program that can parse and interpret OpenDocument documents according to the semantics defined by this specification, and that meets the following additional requirements..."

>
> The challenged language reads:

> An ODF Consumer shall use application settings to alter application
> behavior only within the dimensions of variability permitted by thisstandard.
>
> Question: Does this get into implementation versus format issues? As
> was alluded to earlier today about change tracking?
>
> BTW, part 3, 2.4 defines OpenDocument Package Consumer.
>
> I checked the other parts of the standard and this is the only instance of it.
>
> Suggestion: Unless we want to tackle the application issue here (I
> suggest not), then:
>
> ODF Consumer -> Opendocument Package Consumer
>
> if no one objects by Friday, 23rd March 2012. At that point I will
> open, resolve, apply and close the issue.
>

I think the relevant "ODF Consumer" is the one in Part 1, Section 2.4.  I don't think "Package Consumer" is relevant here.

The gist of this was that an ODF Consumer can have implementation-specific behaviors, but only the the extent that they do not violate another requirement of the specification.

> See: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-3684
>
> Hope everyone is having a great day!
>
> Patrick
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