Re: [office] case-sensitivity of the names of spreadsheet tables

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

<office@lists.oasis-open.org> wrote on 07/26/2012
04:55:15 PM:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that most (all?) spreadsheet implementations supporting ODF
> restrict the names of the various tables (sheets) in a spreadsheet
> document to be distinct under case-insensitive comparison, ie. you
can
> not have 2 sheets (tables) called "Sheet1" and "sheet1".
> 
> I can't find any statement in ODF1.2 that requires that. Is there
such a
> statement?
> 

I don't see that restriction anywhere in the spec.
 But if this is a common requirement it could certainly be added to
ODF 1.3.

-Rob


> Andreas 
> -- 
> Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD, FTICA
> Concordia University College of Alberta
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