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Subject: RE: [office] Thoughts on ODF-Next
Hello, Michael Brauer wrote: > What we are developing are OASIS standards, and the CSDs are just > intermediate draft on our way to the OASIS standards. I'm not in favor > of using different versions strings, since this may be misinterpreted as > giving CSD more weight than they have. > > But there are other options. We may for instance add an attribute that > maybe used in content.xml, styles.xml, etc. and which links to the > schema against wich the file is valid. All schemas we approve will be > available at docs.oasis-open.org, and the name of the schema contains > the CSD number. It therefore unambiguously identifies the CSD that has > been used for the implementation that created a document. > > The same method could be used to link extended ODF documents to a schema > that includes the used extensions. This would allow to validate such > documents, what is not possible right now. There is one thing which needs thinking. If a vendor implements a feature as described in a CSD and releases the software using the features there will be documents which use that feature. When then later the feature is changed in a incompatible way applications that don't support the CSD will not be able to show the document correctly which is very bad for interoperability. What do others think about that? Thorsten
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