Re: [office] Differences between list proposals

[Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems<Oliver-Rainer.Wittmann@Sun.COM>]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Monday 16 April 2007 09:44, Florian Reuter wrote:
>> Oliver is not very precise here. A better statement would be
>> <revised>
>> Thus, the same XML fragment will be interpreted differently in ODF 1.1
>> and ODF 1.2 with Proposal Two when Olivers' understand of ODF1.1 lists
>> is used. </revised>
>> However exactly this case is not specified by ODF1.1. Its also worth
>> mentioning that Olivers' understanding of ODF1.1 lists contradicts e.g.
>> with OOo's understanding of ODF1.1 lists.
> 
> For a fact I know that what your proposal states means the way that 
> KOffice does lists is completely wrong.  In other words; your proposal 
> would make documents created in koffice fail to comply.
> 
> And may I say that I if someone employed by Sun and working on lists 
> states that the current way of using lists is X and you are stating that 
> to not be true. Then without looking at the tiny details; I'm certainly 
> inclined to believe the technician that works on the code.
> 
> Anyway; I read the both proposals and the comparison;
> my comparison would be really really simple:
> 
>    Propsal by Florian changes behavior incompatible with existing 
> behavior, proposal by me/Oliver writes down the existing behavior and 
> expands on that.
> 
> Is there anything more that is relevant?

Please stick to the road map posted by our TC chair - see 
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200703/msg00362.html, which 
has been accepted by the TC - see 
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200704/msg00005.html


Regards, Oliver.