Re: [office] properties on fo namespace, like word-spacing

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

Hi Thomas,

On 10/12/09 22:22, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Thomas Zander <T.Zander@nokia.com> wrote on 10/12/2009 10:30:39 AM:
> 
>> I am a bit surprised why the fo:word-spacing property as defined in 
> XSL[1] is 
>> not mentioned in the ODF spec.
>> Is this an oversight? Are odf-writers allowed to just use all 'fo' 
> namespaced 
>> properties that are defined upstream? Or maybe we decide to not support 
> this 
>> one? (can't find any mention in the archives, though).
>>
> 
> The ODF spec just includes specifically enumerated attributes from XSL:FO. 
>  It does not automatically include all of them.
> 
> Is the lack of fo:word-spacing an oversight?  I don't know.  Does anyone 
> else have an opinion?

Because we are not automatically including all fo attributes but only fo 
attributes where this has been explicitly proposed, this seems not an 
oversight.

> 
>> If its an oversight, how hard would it be to get it into ODF?
>>
> 
> First thing is to enter as an issue into JIRA:  
> http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/office
> 
> All TC members should have rights to enter new issues.  Your OASIS login 
> should work fine here.
> 
> If there is a consensus that this was an oversight, we can probably just 
> slip this into ODF 1.2.  Otherwise we would probably need to defer it to 
> the next release.

Given that we have stopped the discussion and inclusion of new features 
for ODF 1.2 some time ago, deferring this to ODF-Next seems to be the 
correct action. But it is important that you enter an issue for this in 
JIRA, to make sure that this is actually discussed for ODF-Next.

Best regards

Michael
> 
>> ps. Apologies if I'm asking obvious questions, I have not had time for 
> any 
>> ODF-TC work for several months now :/
>>
> 
> I know you have been busy on the implementation side.  This is very good, 
> since implementation experience is our best source of informed feedback on 
> ODF.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Rob
> 
> 
>> 1) http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/#word-spacing
>> -- 
>> Thomas Zander
>>
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