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Subject: Re: [office] style name uniqueness


Hi Michael,

> Hi,
>
> Florian Reuter wrote On 03/14/06 10:03,:
>
>> Daniel Carrera schrieb:
>>
>>> David Faure wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK, so the spec is not unclear, but it's still
>>>> cumbersome to implement IMHO.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Requiring style name uniqueness accross style families might cause 
>>> another set of complications.
>>
>>
>>
>> Why? We have style:name and style:display-name, so you could easily say
>>
>> style:name="ID1" style:display-name="Tips" style:family="paragraph"
>> style:name="ID2" style:display-name="Tips" style:family="text"
>> style:name="ID3" style:display-name="Notes" style:family="paragraph"
>> style:name="ID4" style:display-name="Notes" style:family="text"
>>
>> Wouldn't that be sufficient?
>
>
> For a machine, this may be readable. But if a human wants to create an 
> OpenDocument document using for instance an XML editor, then it is 
> probably much easier for her or him if they can use the names "Tips" 
> and "Notes" directly and don't have to use ids whose names themselves 
> are meaningless.
>
I personally think that the use-case of an OpenDocument processing 
application (e.g. a XSL(T) script) is more likely than a human reading 
plain OpenDocument.

Best regards,

Florian



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