One strictly conforming document?

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

Under Producer Conformance the current proposal states:

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(G1)

A /Conforming OpenDocument/ /Producer/ is a program that creates at 
least one strict conforming OpenDocument document, and that meets the 
following additional requirements:
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and

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(G1.2)

It /may/ create conforming OpenDocument documents that are not strict 
conforming OpenDocument documents, but it /shall/ have a mode of 
operation where all OpenDocument documents that are created are strict 
conforming OpenDocument documents.
***

That seems to me to exclude the possibility that I might have an 
application that only produces "...not strictly conforming OpenDocument 
documents..." which seems like an odd restriction.

Granted that I fully support Michael's notion that the ODF TC should in 
the future be able to more routinely produce standard extensions to the 
format, but I also realize there maybe custom uses where there is no 
desire or need for an standardized extension. Or at least I would prefer 
to keep that open as a possibility and not to deny applications that 
substantially rely on ODF 1.2 from being able to claim that they conform 
to ODF 1.2 (as does their output, to the extent that it does).

Hope everyone is at the start of a great week!

Patrick
 







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Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)