Re: [office] ODF 1.2 Single-Level Conformance and Law of UnintendedConsequences

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

Hi all,
On 01/19/09 21:54, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
>> I am very surprised by this; either I'm misunderstanding what this is 
> about,
>> or the use of extensions isn't known enough by this TC.
>>
>> Let me point out some examples:
>>
>> * KWord can save a table style that points to a frame+paragraph 
>> style, it does that by using the
>> koffice:frame-style-name and koffice:paragraph-style-name properties
>> in the style. This doesn't
>> create a huge interop problem since existing documents are rendered 
>> fine by other implementations,
>> those properties are only used when creating new tables.
>>
>> * KWord can define the behavior of a frame when a new page is 
>> created (for DTP-like usage
>> where you might want a similar frame to be created on the next page 
>> at the exact same position;
>> another one use case is a company logo in a page corner for instance).
>> This is done with koffice:frame-behavior-on-new-page in the frame 
>> style; and here again it
>> only affects further editing, not rendering of a given document.
>>
>> * OpenOffice has similar things, using the xmlns:ooo="http://
>> openoffice.org/2004/office" namespace for instance.
>> or xmlns:ooow="http://openoffice.org/2004/writer"; or xmlns:oooc="
>> http://openoffice.org/2004/calc";.
>>
> 
> OK.  I was not aware of these.  Thanks for pointing this out.

OpenOffice.org indeed defines these namespace, but it does use it only 
to identify formula semantics and event names. The single conformance 
level would not effect these usages.

OpenOffice.org does not add any attributes or elements within these 
namespaces. If it would do so, then I would call this a bug.

Michael

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