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Subject: Re: [office] Proposal: Footnote reference Class
On Thursday 23 September 2004 16:40, Michael Brauer wrote: > Dear TC members, > > some time ago we agreed to merge the footnote element <text:footnote> > and endnote element <text:endnote> into a single <text:note> element, > where a new "text:note-class" attribute specifies whether the note > actually is a footnote or an endnote. > > At the same time, we merged the elements for text fields that contain a > reference to a foot- or endnote (<text:footnote-ref> and > <text:endnote-ref>) into a single <text:note-ref> that does not have > "text:note-class" attribute. I in fact don't know what our reasons for > not having these attribute for note references were, but I would like to > propose to add it to the <text:note-ref> element for two reasons: > > 1. The <text:note-ref> element references foot- and endnotes by names. > In the schema, these names are not ID's, but only strings. That means > that foot and endnotes may have the same name, and that a > <text:note-ref> that does not specify what kind of note it references > may become ambiguous. > 2. Note references may reference notes that are below the reference in > the text. In this case, the type of the note might not be known when the > note reference is read. This may cause problems for applications that > differ between footnotes and endnotes either in its document model or in > the view they craete fo a document. This issue might become more severe > than we add new note types. The possibility to do so actually was one > reason why we merged foot- and endnotes. So the proposal is to add a text:note-class attribute to <text:note-ref>, where this attribute can be either "footnote" or "endnote"? Or do I misunderstand the proposal? -- David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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