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Subject: Re: [office] Foreign attributes in <*-properties> elements


2009/2/16 Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann@zagge.de>:
> On Sunday 15 February 2009, Dave Pawson wrote:
>> 2009/2/15 Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann@zagge.de>:
>> > I agree with Rob here that it would be nice if these values could be kept
>> > if a different application loads and saves the document. For myself I is
>> > also fine if an application would strip these attributes.
>>
>> Which?
>
> If we want to have somethink like keeping foreign attributes those foreign
> attributes would need to be described somewhere in the saved odf file so that
> could work. Also the containers under which they can be kept would need to
> specified.

Which makes it almost impossible to specify, since they are 'foreign' by
definition.


>
>> Why would an application (you don't constrain to a type of application
>> such as an office type of application of ODF) do this?
>>
>> What attributes/elements? All in any foreign namespace?
>> For what purpose?
>>
>> Would you put this requirement on all ODF applications?
>
> No. I think it is ok for applications to strip all stuff it does not support
> during a load/save. That also happens in koffice.

Which makes it non-standard? I.e. not possible to 'standardize'.

A good reason not to follow this approach in the standard.


>
>> This does not seem sensible as a general constraint.
>>
>> I.e. I'd propose that no application is required to retain
>> foreign attributes or elements when saving back to file.
>
> Yes you are right a requirement does not make sense. It would be however nice
> if an application (only if there is a way defined in ODF) other then the one
> that wrote them out in the start can preserve them.
>
> Hope that clarifies it a bit more.


I think we understand how impossible it is to specify retention of
foreign content through application processing.
That should not be any part of the standard.

What an application does as an extension is up to that application.

regards

-- 
Dave Pawson
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