Re: [office] Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 8-Dec-03

[David Faure <faure@kde.org>]

On Friday 12 December 2003 16:55, Michael Brauer wrote:
> Discussion of Work Package 10 Document Settings
> -----------------------------------------------
> The TC discussed the proposal for the representation of cursor 
> positions. While the proposal will be suitable for representing cursor 
> positions in office application WYSIWYG views, it won't be suitable for 
> representing cursor positions in other views, like XML tree or text 
> views. For this reason, the TC unanimously agreed to represent cursor 
> positions with processing instructions. The format of the cursor 
> position will be
> <?openoffice cursor-position name1="value1" name2="value2" ?>,
> that is, it will follow the XML element syntax. Applications that 
> support multiple views can add an attribute like view-id="[view-name]" 
> to specify to which view a cursor position belongs.

Can you clarify this proposal? What are those name and values?
How does using a processing instruction solve the problem with "XML tree or text views"?

Thanks.

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