Re: [office-formula] Grammar (Rationales, etc.)

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

"David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
wrote on 03/13/2006 01:30:37 PM:

> I think the final FORMAL standard should NOT contain much (if any)
> comments on
> specific implementations. A small non-normative section about them
> would, I think, be fine,
> but not a lot, and certainly not a lot interspersed throughout the
document.
> 
> Yet if we want to finish this year, I think we NEED to include a lot
of 
> information about
> real implementations throughout the document. Otherwise, we'll spend
all
> our time repeating to each other why things were done in a certain
way, 
> instead
> of getting things actually done.  

That's fine.  I agree it is good to have this
in the draft to remind us why we made the choices we did.  I just
wanted some assurance that the final version, which is supposed to be application
neutral, would not have a large number of references (even non-normative
ones) to specific applications.  If only we had full meta data support
today!  That would solve this wonderfully.  Using style templates
as you mention would work as well.

-Rob