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Subject: Re: [office] 1.1 Introduction


Patrick,

Patrick Durusau wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> A couple of comments on 1.1 Introduction in version 17 of the draft:
> 
> 1.1 Introduction
> 
> first paragraph, second sentence reads:
> 
> The schema is suitable for office documents, including text documents,
> spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents like drawings or
> presentations, but is not restricted to these *kind* of documents.
> 
> Error: number agreement
> 
> Suggest:
> 
> ... but is not restricted to these kinds of documents.

I've changed that for the next draft,
> 
> 
> second paragraph reads:
> 
> The schema retains high-level information suitable for editing
> document and is friendly to transformations using XSLT or similar
> XML-based languages or tools.
> 
> Comment: 'The schema retains'?, seems awkward, along with 'suitable
> for editing document', which is true but it also supports creation of
> documents as well. Note number error with 'document.'
> 
> Suggest:
> 
> The schema defines suitable XML structures for office documents and is
> friendly to transformations using XSLT or similar XML-based tools.

The "The schema retains" sentence actually has been taken from our 
charter. Its purpose, in the spec as well as in the charter, is to 
clarify what the difference between our schema and for instance XSL-FO 
is. The later one could be used to save at least very simple office 
documents, but these documents cannot be edited with office applications 
again.

For this reason, I think if we change the sentence so that it sounds 
better, we should keep the content (not the words) of the original 
sentence in a sub sentence or as a separate sentence.

Do you have a suggestion for this?

Thanks

Michael



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