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Subject: Re: [office] One strictly conforming document?
Hi Dennis Clearly you have far more time to devote to to this discussion than I so you will forgive me if my response is brief. I am trying to understand where this strong demand for the use of foreign elements is really coming from. I've heard about the X standing for extensible, the fact that html has a <div> element and an ongoing appeal to the metaphor of floors and ceilings. Somehow none of it is convincing. Is there a real use case out there which is perhaps threatened by "lowering the ceiling" as you would put it? I am wondering whether there is a known implementation, or planned implementation, which will rely heavily on this allowance - or "promise" as i have heard it most recently described. If so, maybe we should be discussing in more concrete terms. 2009/2/3 Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>: > Since the current ODF 1.0/IS 26300/ODF 1.1 specifications only define > (normative) conformance that allows for foreign elements (among others), and > you are successfully requiring strict conformance in your procurement > policies, it seems to me that you are not disturbed, as a practical matter, > in obtaining strictly-conformant products. > > I would think that having strict conformance normatively-defined in the ODF > specification, while preserving the current overall definition, would > support your case by a specification-defined quality. If you don't want the > other kind around, so be it, but I don't think having the TC do that work > for you will solve your problem. I have absolutely no desire or ability to prevent the "other kind" being around. I would just rather it be called that - the other kind - rather than a class b conforming ODF document which was produced by a class d3 conforming producer and which must be able to be consumed by a a2 consumer. I would like to see the work of the TC directed towards a simple unity of what is an odf document. Regards Bob > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Jolliffe [mailto:bobjolliffe@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 05:03 > To: ODF office > Subject: Re: [office] One strictly conforming document? > > [ ... ] > > My preference would still be very much for the single strict > conformance class for documents, with no foreign elements except in > the agreed upon locations. I will shift extremely reluctantly (wild > horses ...) towards a mish-mash of conformance permutations. > > Regards > Bob > > [ ... ] > >
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