Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] Deliverable: odf-diff?

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

2008/6/21 Sander Marechal <s.marechal@jejik.com>:

> Those links you provided are actually very close to what I mean by
> "normalizing" an ODF document. Perhaps "Canonicalizing" an ODF document
> would be a better term. The W3C spec you point to also coin a nice
> phrase: "logically equivalent". That's exactly the term I'm looking for
> all this thread :-)
>
> Two ODF documents that differ only in the names of the automatic styles
> (but the content of those styles are the same) are logically equivalent.
> The ODF spec explicitly says that an application is free to change the
> names of the automatic styles (but not the manual styles!)
>
> Two documents that differ only in what order the image references appear
> in the manifest are logically equivalent. The spec dictates nothing
> about the order. It's not important because it's a set, not a list. As
> long as they contain the same references, they're logically equivalent.

So what would be the deliverable from this Sander?
A definition of a normalized/canonical ODF instance
used to support a comparison tool.

Something like that?

regards




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