RE: [office] ODF 1.0 and 1.0ed2-cs1 Schema Discrepancies

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

Based on the feedback from Rob Weir (on a different topic) that the schema fragments in the ODF 1.0 specifications (OASIS and ISO/IEC) are definitive, I will take it upon myself to see if there is a way to account for the line-number discrepancies between the OASIS ODF 1.0 Standard and the IS 26300 version.  I suspect that an appropriate note would be to advise where separate lines in the specification fragments should be understood to be wrapped lines and not hard new-lines.

My fervent prayer is that this will account for all of the differences between the provided .rng file and the two specifications (without worrying over-much about blank lines that may be in the spec fragments and not in the file, if there are such cases). 

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org] 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200809/msg00058.html
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 23:15
To: ODF TC List
Subject: [office] ODF 1.0 and 1.0ed2-cs1 Schema Discrepancies

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I cannot imagine attempting to correct either document over this.  I am assuming that if the only public ODF 1.0 schema that we have were opened in a text editor without line wrapping, the line numbers would not match either specification exactly.  (I tried it and I find that the rng file's </grammar> tag is on line 17666, surprisingly close to ODF 1.0ed2-cs1 numbering.)

It would appear useful to account for the discrepancies between the two different printings of embedded schema.  Not by changing them, but just pointing out where the line-numberings change and what it is attributed to?

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I'm willing to do this review if it would help us show how ODF 1.0 is reconciled with IS 26300 and I am not repeating work that has already been done.



-----Original Message-----
From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com] 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200809/msg00062.html
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 06:52
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Subject: Re: [office] Errata: Substantive Schema Change in 15.27.22?

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1) The standalone RNG schema files are not part of the ODF Standard.    We 
don't send them out for review and they are not part of the package that 
OASIS members vote on.

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3) Section 1.4 defines what the normative schema is for ODF:

"The normative XML Schema for the OpenDocument format is embedded within 
this
specification. It can be obtained from the specification document by 
concatenating all schema
fragments contained in chapters 1 to 16. All schema fragments have a gray 
background color
and line numbers."

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4) Since the schema fragments are the normative schema definitions, if we 
have prose references to element or attribute names, and these references 
differ from those in the schema fragments, then the schema fragments are 
the definitive definitions.

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