Re: [office] Errata: Substantive Schema Change in 15.27.22?

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

Dennis,

On 09/22/08 07:05, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> With regard to 2008-09-22 agenda item 4b, I notice that a change to the ODF schema is technically a substantive change.  I am sure this has been talked through before, and I apologize for bringing it up again except I am expected to deal with agenda item 4b, which is an attestation that there are no substantive changes.
> 
> What I'm looking at is the change in 15.27.22 p.651 line 31 where the attribute name style:wrap-dynamic-treshold is changed to style:wrap-dynamic-threshold (adding an h after the t in treshold).  
> 
> OBSERVATIONS
> 
> 1. I understand that this was unintended and that the change is to the spelling that is used in the prose that describes the attribute.  In prose, that would clearly be a typo.  In a schema, it is a different matter (even though a mistake).
> 
> 2. I also see that the ODF 1.1 schema has style:wrap-dynamic-threshold.
> 
> 3. The only ODF 1.0 schema supplied on the OASIS TC page still has style:wrap-dynamic-threshold.
> 
> 4. In particular, there does not seem to be a separate schema file available for ODF 1.0 (Second Edition) cs1.  The public downloads for ISO/IEC 26300:2006 do not provide a schema file at all.
> 
> QUESTIONS
> 
> 1. So is this considered non-substantive even though it is significant as schema text, or should we maybe pull that one errata item out and think about it.

That's an interesting question. The description of the attribute says 
"style:wrap-dynamic-threshold" while the schema says 
"style:wrap-dynamic-treshold". That's an obvious mismatch. Only one of 
the two spellings can be "correct" in the sense that this is the name 
that should be used in ODF documents.

The question is what implementors have assumed to be correct and what 
they therefore have implemented. Since there is an obvious spelling 
error in the schema, my assumption would be that they have used 
"style:wrap-dynamic-threshold" an in fact have assumed that the schema 
is wrong here. Under this assumption, correcting the spelling in the 
schema would be non-substantive.

> 
> 2. If the change is to be kept, what do we do about the schema files?

We may update them.

Michael
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>  - Dennis
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