Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] Reason and example arguing for the use of an ODF (or XML) canonical form

["Stuart A. Yeates" <syeates@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2008/7/7 jose lorenzo <hozelda@yahoo.com>:
>>
>> > A FAQ (as a deliverable I suppose) might be a good idea. The FAQ could
>> > help answer direct questions about conformity and interop issues.
>> >
>> > [Not necessarily meant to be used as is:]
>> >
>> > "Can an ODF conformant app fail to interoperate with other ODF
>> > conformant apps? Yes, but ....
>> >
>> > "Can ODF conformant apps add extensions not supported in any other ODF
>> > conformant apps? Yes, but ...."
>> >
>> > Such a FAQ would be very little trouble and should prove to be very
>> > useful to both tech and especially to nontech audiences.

Other questions that would be very useful to a non-technical audience include:

"What features can (and cannot) be expected to interoperate between
conformant apps?"

and

"Will an ODF document opened by a conformant app and then saved as an
ODF document loose information?"

cheers
stuart