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Subject: Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] PROPOSAL -- Name change for proposedTC
Simon Calderson wrote: > As a simple example, CDRF shows how you can combine XHTML and SVG > content in a single, compound document. I think you're confusing WICD and CDRF? > Iin particular, CDRF does not and cannot address the scope of ODF > profiles: if the new TC is to define feature subsets of ODF that is > useful in a CDRF context (e.g., you could create a CDRF-based profile > which aimed at mobile devices which included an ODF profile), but the > two operate at entirely different levels. I don't think CDRF even tries to address the scope of ODF. The profiles bit of CDRF merely states a few requirements of profiles. I wrote this in another mail to the list as well: [1] A subprofile only removes elements (or restricts it more) to a base profile. It does not add to it. [2] Given a profile X and it's sub-profiles Y and Z: An application which supports profile X must also support the subprofiles Y and Z (should not be hard to do, since there's nothing in those subprofiles that's not in the Gamma profile. See [1]) I think that's the main reason Marbux is hammering so much on CDRF. Personally, I like those points of CDRF. When adhered to, you can solve quite a lot of the interoperability quagmire with profiles(*). I'm still not convinced that we need all of CDRF, but the profile bit is definitely useful. (*) Example: Suppose there's ODF/I for interoperability and ODF/W, a subset (subprofile) of ODF/I useful for web applications like Google Apps. The profiles part of CDRF dictates that: [1] Everying in ODF/W is also in ODF/I. [2] When an application like OOo says it supports ODF/I, it means that you can open an ODF/W document, edit it and it will save it in ODF/W instead of ODF/I. That means that Google Apps can open it without issue even though Google Apps only supports ODF/W and not all of ODF/I. The sad part is that these good points that Marbux makes are entirely lost in the enormously long posts -- burried under conspiracy theories, legal flamebait and tin-foil hattery. Sorry Marbux...
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