Re: [office] 2.4.6 Cursor Position Setting

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

Hi Patrick,

Patrick Durusau wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>2.4.6 Cursor Position Setting, first paragraph reads:
>
>A common view setting for editing applications is the position where the 
>text cursor was while saving the document. For WYSIWYG application, this 
>usually will be a position within a paragraph only. For application that 
>provide an XML based view of the document, the cursor position could be 
>also between arbitrary elements, or even within tags.
>
>Suggest:
>
>WYSIWYG application -> WYSIWYG applications
>
>For application -> For applications
>
I've changed that.

>
>The second paragraph reads:
>
>To represent a text cursor position within Open Office documents, a 
>processing instruction with PITarget openoffice (see §2.6 of [XML1.0]) 
>should be used. The character content of the processing instruction must 
>follow the XML start tag content, that is, it must have a name and an 
>arbitrary number of attributes. The name of the cursor position 
>processing instruction is cursor-position. It may have arbitrary 
>application specific attributes, for instance to connect the cursor 
>position with a certain view of the document, where the views themselves 
>are specified as application specific settings.
>
>Comment:
>
>Since this is the only place where processing instructions are 
>specified, shouldn't we simply say that the required name is 
>cursor-position, as opposed to saying it must have a name and then 
>saying it is cursor-position?
>
>The reason I mention this is that 'name' is used in the productions of 
>XML 1.0 to define the PITarget. Granted 'name' in another sense but 
>possibly confusing in a quick read.
>
>Suggest:
>
>To represent a text cursor position within Open Office documents, a 
>processing instruction with PITarget openoffice (see §2.6 of [XML1.0]) 
>should be used. The name of the cursor position processing instruction, 
>cursor-position, must follow the PITarget openoffice. The processing 
>instruction may have arbitrary application specific attributes, for 
>instance to connect the cursor position with a certain view of the 
>document, where the views themselves are specified as application 
>specific settings.
>  
>
I've changed that as well, but added the sentence:
"The syntax for these attributes /must/ be the same as for attributes
within XML start tags."

>Hope everyone is having a great day!
>
>Patrick
>
>  
>
Michael