RE: [office] Question regarding ODF 1.2 CD05 part 3 - path of the package root

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

I am sure I am missing something in your question.  Look at the manifest.xml
files in the ODF specifications.  None of them have manifest:full-path
values that begin with "." and the only one beginning with "/" is the
artificial one for the overall document that the package represents.  (Zip
directory entries are forbidden to have names beginning with "/".)

I notice there is a tendency in some OpenDocument Producers to create
subdocuments for every possible full-path leading segment ending in "/" but
there is no requirement for that in the Package specification, especially
with manifest:media-type="". In fact, I believe such manifest:media-type
values do not conform to the MIME Type RFC and such <manifest:file-entry>
elements are better created with omission of the manifest:media-type
attribute.

 - Dennis

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-----Original Message-----
From: Svante.Schubert@Sun.COM [mailto:Svante.Schubert@Sun.COM] 
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Subject: [office] Question regarding ODF 1.2 CD05 part 3 - path of the
package root

ODF 1.2 part 3 
4.8.4 manifest:full-path 

"The attribute value "/" denotes a manifest entry for the package itself."

Does not all path of the manifest have to be a relative paths and therefore
the path have to be "./" for the root document and the package itself?

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