RE: [oic] charts in spreadsheets, ranges

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow@pyrshep.ca>]

On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 10:59 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> I don't believe "Object 1/" can be referenced unless there is a
> manifest:full-path with that value in a <manifest:file-entry> of the
> manifest.xml file.  In that case, the manifest:media-type will provide the
> MIME type of the embedded package content.
> 
> You need to look at 17.5 of ODF 1.1 (the counterpart in ODF 1.2 Part 2 has
> not changed yet). 
> 
> If you are talking about an embedded object (a single binary blob), then its
> manifest:full-path item name should not end in "/".

Bart is not talking about an "embedded object (a single binary blob)"
but a chart described in the chart document "Object 1/". So this looks
like a subfolder with content.xml etc.

Andreas

> 
> There are other interop problems around the use of URIs to refer from one
> package item to another, but it seems pretty clear from the limited
> specification and the one example that only "sub-folder" full-paths can end
> in "/", and they have no item in the Zip package.
> 
> Remember that Zip does not have a hierarchic folder structure.  Web-server,
> http rules for distinguishing folder references don't apply at all.
> Projecting a folder structure onto the Zip structure is a convention that
> some widely-used Zip software provides, but the convention is platform and
> implementation-dependent and not, as I recall, specified in the PKZIP
> documentation of the Zip format.  
> 
> How hierarchical projection works for ODF 1.x packages and how that fits
> into the application of URIs for hrefs among the components of an ODF 1.x
> package is, shall we say, a bit vague?
> 
>  - Dennis
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hanssens Bart [mailto:Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be] 
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/200906/msg00055.html
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 04:15
> To: oic@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [oic] charts in spreadsheets, ranges
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> So, for maximum interoperability, I guess a consumer must be able to
> 
> - handle both href "./Object 1" and "Object 1/" hrefs
> - draw the chart even when the cell range is missing on the chart:plot-area
> or the chart:series
> 
> 
> And a producer should probably set the cell range on both elements.
> 
> IIRC the correct way for the href is "Object 1/" (why is there a space by
> the way ? It is a valid IRI, but still strange), although this will break
> older implementations that rely on "./Object 1". Not sure if there's a
> work-around that's both correct and backwards-compatible...
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bart
> 
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Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow@pyrshep.ca>