Re: [opendocument-users] Reference implementation

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

I think of a reference implementation
as something developed in parallel with the standard, which is used to
develop and verify the compliance suite, and is often consulted as a tie
breaker on questions of interpretation where the spec and compliance tests
are silent or ambiguous.  

So, speaking for myself, I'd be hesitant
to call any implementation an official "reference implementation"
until we have an official compliance test suite which we can use to verify
its compliance.  Having a reference implementation without an official
test suite seems to go against the ancient sailor's advice: "Never
go to sea with exactly two compasses". 

-Rob

Daniel d'Andrada Tenório de Carvalho <daniel.carvalho@indt.org.br>

12/21/2005 10:33 AM

To	David Faure <faure@kde.org>
cc	opendocument-users@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject	Re: [opendocument-users] Reference implementation

Hi David,

David Faure wrote:
> 
> An implementation of ... parsing? rendering? editing?

Rendering, I meant.

> 
> I think OpenOffice.org is generally considered as the reference implementation
> for OpenDocument.

Hmmm... But wouldn't that lead to the conclusion that OpenDocument is
the OO.o/Star Office file format or something like that?

> KOffice is another implementation, but not as complete.
> 

There's also AbiWord (it already have import and will have export on its
next release, version 2.4.2, but not complete either).


Best Regards,
Daniel d'Andrada T. de Carvalho - INdT

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