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

[Sander Marechal <s.marechal@jejik.com>]

Dave Pawson wrote:
> 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?

Yes. It would be much like the xml-c14n spec. To steal from the xml-c14n
spec:

"[A set of] specification[s] that describes a method for generating a
physical representation, the canonical form, of an [ODF] document that
accounts for the permissible changes."

I'm writing "A set of" here because we'd need more than one. We'd need a
spec to canonicalize styles.xml, content.xml, the manifest, the zip file
(packing order of the files? it may already be in the zip spec. If so,
this could be skipped), etcetera.

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Sander Marechal