Let's Keep the Cases Straight

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

I notice that there is a tendency to view whatever already happens using the ODF 1.x change tracking as part of ECT and that GCT escapes it.

I think we need to look at the choices in front of us where

    a.  ODF? is what there is in major circulation now, more-or-less related to what is in the ODF 1.0-ODF 1.2 specifications (the ? related to the uncertainty around bugs and limitations in implementations and the specification too.

    b. GCT is the general proposal that uses the DeltaXML approach as a basis

    c. ECT is the approach to extending change tracking using ODF? as a starting point.

That means we have these to wonder about:

 0. ODF? as it is or maybe tidied up a tiny bit (I number this 0 because I don't think we can get away with this)

1. GCT

2. ODF? + GCT (unless we believe we'll ever get away with abandoning ODF? without a way forward, even if it means a protracted deprecation period, sort of like OOXML part 4.)

3. ODF? + ECT (the only place where ECT applies)

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: monkeyiq [mailto:monkeyiq@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 01:30
To: Frank Meies
Cc: office-collab@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [office-collab] Suggestions for moving forward to resolve issues

On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 12:55 +0200, Frank Meies wrote:
> That's what OOo currently does. There is no difference (neither in the 
> generated xml nor in the internal structures) if you change the 
> caption text:p or any other paragraph in the document.

So in this particular case, the ECT as it stands is actually a fair bit harder to implement than the GCT. The ECT requiring two very different IO paths depending on context.

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