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

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Sander Marechal <s.marechal@jejik.com> wrote
on 06/23/2008 05:16:54 PM:

> robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> > Of course this could be a single document, with different sections
> > pertaining to each of: styles.xml, content.xml, etc.
> 
> Of course. My point was merely that there's more than one thing that
> needs to be canonicalized.
> 
> This also leads to the question of: What about the related standards?
> Are there c14n schemes for SVG? XForms? Zipfile? Should the OIIC TC
make
> those if the don't already exist, or will we simply use xml-c14n for
> those until the W3C comes up with something better?
> 

You would need to do to the extent needed to achieve
your goals, or at least a worthwhile subset of them.  In terms of
establish ODF equivalence, I think Canonical XML, plus rules to deal with
the arbitrariness of style names and a handful of other factors gets to
far.  But some things, like vector graphics equivalence, may be impossible,
at least in practical terms

-Rob