RE: [office-comment] Describing legacy information

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

OK.  I guess I misunerstood you.  I thought you were referring to legacy 
ODF settings.  But this sounds like you are really talking about legacy 
application settings.   This is an issue with OpenOffice.org, not ODF. 
OpenOffice.org writes out a <config:config-item> that uses "
UseOldPrinterMetrics" to name a setting,  The element <config:config-item> 
is a documented part of the standard which allows applications to store 
named application-specific settings.

I'd recommend that you come up with a real-world scenario where not 
knowing the meaning of "UseOldPrinterMetrics" causes an interoperability 
problem, and then send that along to OpenOffice.org and ask them to 
document this information, either in implementation notes, or as suggested 
additions to ODF.

Since the meaning of "UseOldPrinterMetrics" is as opaque to me as it is to 
you, there is nothing I can do on the ODF TC about this.

But we can look at the language around <config:config-item> in the 
standard so it is clear what appropriate uses of it are.

-Rob


"Wouter van Vugt" <wouter@code-counsel.net> wrote on 06/18/2009 10:14:35 
PM:

> 
> As I am not the creator of Open Office or Lotus Symphony, I can never
> give guarantees on which things are not defined. However, even a newbie
> such as myself can find settings such as UseOldPrinterMetrics. 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com] 
> Sent: donderdag 18 juni 2009 22:14
> To: office-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [office-comment] Describing legacy information
> 
> Do you have a list of these settings?
> 
> -Rob
> 
> "Wouter van Vugt" <wouter@code-counsel.net> wrote on 06/18/2009 08:41:48
> 
> PM:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The current version of the ODF specification currently does not 
> > describe legacy settings. There are a variety of settings that Open 
> > Office persists into the file which are not adequately defined 
> > within ODF. While one may argue that these settings are specific to 
> > Open Office, the existence of these settings hinder interoperability
> > unless properly defined. Similar to how Open XML was improved 
> > through full disclosure of legacy data, ODF would also improve when 
> > doing the same. Instead of defining these settings directly in the 
> > specification I propose to add a conformance clause mandating that 
> > all settings are adequately described in whatever document we deem 
> > fit for it. This is the only way to ensure that not only legacy 
> > document created with Open Office can be handled in the future, but 
> > those of all ODF implementing applications. The very least is a 
> > requirement for Open Office to disclose the information being the 
> > originator of the spec.
> > 
> 
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