Re: [office] Motion for approving ODF 1.2 as Committee Draft andsubmitting it for pubic review.

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Rob,

Moreover, doesn't the language:

> ODF v1.2 consists of the following files and schemas:
>    
answer the question?

the "ODF v1.2" in question is the one specified by the files and schemas.

What seems unclear about that?

Hope you are looking forward to a great weekend!

Patrick

On 6/11/2010 4:26 PM, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> "Andreas J. Guelzow"<andreas.guelzow@concordia.ab.ca>  wrote on 06/11/2010
> 10:15:07 PM:
>    
>> Hi Patrick,
>>
>> On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 12:59 -0600, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>>      
>>> On 6/11/2010 2:56 PM, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
>>>        
>>>>>            
>>>> In that motion, when you say "(...) three versions of the
>>>>          
> specification
>    
>>>> documents(ODF, PDF and HTML)(...)", what does ODF refer to? An
>>>>          
> existing
>    
>>>> standard version?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> In that context, it means OpenDocument Format as in a file format. The
>>>        
>    
>>> other possible choices being PDF or HTML.
>>>        
>> There are various (related) file formats referred to as ODF: ODF 1.0 and
>> ODF 1.1 comes to mind, with ODF 1.2 in process. I am specifically asking
>> which version.
>>
>> And if the answer is ODF1.2 I obviously have some issues with that since
>> there is only a moving target with that name.
>>
>>      
> I believe I understand your point, but it really is not germane.  We do
> not need to identify the version of ODF used here.  We're only required to
> identify which version of the specification, of the ones uploaded, will
> comprise the authoritative version.  We could have just as well identified
> them by name, e.g., *.odt.  But as stated in the ballot, it is unambiguous
> which files are the ODF ones.  We agree that they are the ones with the
> odt file extension, right?
>
> -Rob
>
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