Re: [office] Namespace 'of' for formula expressions

[Eike Rathke <erack@sun.com>]

Hi David,

On Friday, 2008-04-11 17:16:26 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:

> Strictly speaking, from an XML point of view the "of" namespace alias could be any name; "aklfjsajfslkf:" would be fine as long as the matching namespace definition gave the same OpenFormula namespace.

Correct, so having that described as "namespace alias is required to be
'of'" isn't the right wording.

> BUT: I think we _should_ limit or strongly encourage, the namespace
> alias to be "of" exactly, at least when it's inside an OpenDocument
> document.  The reason is that there are a lot of simple
> tools/libraries that don't handle namespaces exactly "correctly".

Which was the reasoning behind my thoughts. To encourage the use of 'of'
the right wording probably would be, applications _should_ write the
namespace alias 'of'.

  Eike

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