user variabes.

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

In our appendix a number of 'user variables' have been defined.
See 6.3.5 in the spec.

In OpenOffice, these are 'expanded' (replaced by their values)
in content.xml

Can someone check in the IBM and Star Office XML that this is also true please?

 <text:user-field-decls>
            <text:user-field-decl office:value-type="float"
office:value="39015" text:name="Date"/>
            <text:user-field-decl office:value-type="string"
office:string-value="odt" text:name="Extension"/>
            <text:user-field-decl office:value-type="string"
office:string-value="v1.0-draft12" text:name="Version"/>
            <text:user-field-decl office:value-type="string"
office:string-value="" text:name="description"/>
            <text:user-field-decl office:value-type="string"
office:string-value="ODF_Accessibility_Guidelines" text:name="tcid"/>
            <text:user-field-decl office:value-type="string"
office:string-value="2" text:name="revision"/>

etc.

If these are expanded prior to serializing to disk, there is no point in
processing them for export.

I note there is no requirement in the spec to replace them with values
or to leave it to an application.
Ambiguity?

regards


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