Re: [office-metadata] Data types

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Hi Bruce,

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> 
> Also, WRT to this:
> 
>> The existing data types of OpenDocument, as described in "6.7.1 
>> Variable Value Types and Values" should be expressed by using the 
>> original identifier string in conjunction with the office namespace 
>> and a hash. For example, 
>> 'urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0#percentage'.
> 
> I think in general ODF should get away from using non-resolvable URNs 
> for namespace URIs. It can be useful in a lot of course to actually 
> resolve these URIs to further documentation and such.

OASIS has rules for the composition of namespace URIs, so this is 
probably nothing we can change.

Michael


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