Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] My perspective. display perferct?

["David Gerard" <dgerard@gmail.com>]

2008/7/14 Bart Hanssens <bart.hanssens@skynet.be>:
> Radoslav Dejanović wrote:

>> I believe that is the point - we do not want applications to do any
>> internal modifications of a document unless the user adds, modifies or
>> deletes something. Input file should be exactly the same as the output
>> file if there were no user interactions (we should consider spell
>> checking as user interaction).

> So, basically:
> "when an application doesn't support an elements or an attribute that is
> part of the ODF namespaces (or any namespace ?), the application shall
> not change or remove said element or attribute (unless the parent is
> changed or removed ?)"
> So if app X opens an ODT with tables and X doesn't support tables, that
> would be OK as long as X isn't removing the tables when saving the
> document to a file.


Part of the ODF namespace as per the spec (whichever spec that is),
I'd suggest. As I've noted before here, random third-party extension
preservation has led to interoperability disasters in the past with
ISO specs.


- d.