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Subject: Re: [office-comment] CD01 -- 8.2.1 Referencing Table Cells
Alex, Alex Brown wrote: > Patrick hi > > I appreciate the intent in 1.1. > > Clearly if ODF 1.1 stated that implementations had to conform to all the > semantic provisions of the spec, then a large class of legitimate and > useful applications could never claim to be conformant. > > However, the wording in 1.5 went way too far, by allowing *all* > conforming applications to ignore *anything*. > > So, you prefer: > Description URI: http://descriptions.openxmlformats.org/description/base > An application conforming to this description has a semantic > understanding of at least one feature within its > conformance class. Well, that certainly is more specific than allowing *all* conforming applications to ignore *anything.* ;-) I think it would be more helpful to puzzle out what we expect of "conformance clauses" than to treat them as self-executing (which they aren't.) My assumption has always been that conformance clauses are useful for buyers to have a short-hand, "...do you conform to....(standard or part of conformance clause)..." rather than having to specify particular abilities. Perhaps the customer whats an entire set of abilities. So the real question is whether or not we have mechanisms that allow customers to specify particular sets of features, some, all, particular ones and where should that be located? I understand you to be saying that OOXML has both internal definitions (assuming I can ever figure out what "...in a manner consistent with the semantic definitions..." (Part 1, 2.6, defining semantic understanding)) and allows any number of external definitions. There appear to be no limitations on external definitions. I like the idea of specifying conformance classes and using URIs, etc. so there is merit in the mechanism. I am less certain that what you have proposed is any more specific than what we have now. That seems to me to be a different issue that isn't addressed by how a conformance class is specified. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
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