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Subject: Re: [office] The Rule of Least Power
robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote: > However, I could give you equally plausible extension attributes which > would require entirely different processing, and in fact would lead to > horribly corrupted documents if the same processing rules were > indiscriminately applied. Indeed. But even if ODF will use the simplest policy that application should strip unknown extension elements/attributes this problem will be eliminated. > Has anyone done this work already? I'm surprised there is not a > well-known standard for expressing such editing semantics. I think most > of my concerns would be answered if we had a standard vocabulary for > indicating for extensions things like volatile="true", > preserveOnCopy="false", etc. I think that this task is very complex and AFAIK the completely general solution leads to NP-complete problem. Probably nothing what anyone would like to implement in his office application. Of course, the most typical cases could be handled by rules you propose. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member ------------------------------------------------------------------
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