Re: [office] table:filter-condition extension proposal

[Kohei Yoshida <kyoshida@novell.com>]

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 13:46 +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 June 2007 16:56:40 Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> > The original motivation for proposing this format:
> >
> >     <filter-set-item table:value="John Doe"/>
> >
> > instead of the other format:
> >
> >     <filter-set-item>John Doe</filter-set-item>
> >
> > is to make it in line with the 'table:value' attribute of the current
> > table:filter-condition element, which is formatted like this:
> >
> >   <filter-condition table:field-number=1 table:operator="="
> >           table:value="Doe"/>
> 
> I understand the logic, but I am under the impression that the moving of 
> the attribute to become a node will make the suggestion of mine to be 
> very common and obvious.
> 
> In other words; if its all the same to you, I think we should go for the
>      <filter-set-item>John Doe</filter-set-item>
> form.
> 
> ps. I'm totally uninformed about the actual feature you are extending. So 
> it would be great to get someone else to comment on that.

I've put some additional information in my blog.

http://blog.kohei.us/2007/06/13/making-autofilter-more-user-friendly/

Hopefully this gives you more information on the feature in question.
-- 
Kohei Yoshida - OpenOffice.org Engineer - Novell, Inc.
<kyoshida@novell.com>