Re: [opendocument-users] Re: [office] style name uniqueness (Re:[office] OpenDocument TC Meeting Minutes 2006-01-09 and 2005-12-19)

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Svante,

for a machine, it may in fact be a little bit easier if style names are 
unique across different style families, but for humans that create documents 
it seems to be easier if they can use styles with the same name but different 
families.

Michael

Svante Schubert wrote On 03/13/06 19:13,:
> Hi all,
> 
> David Faure wrote:
> 
>>> Style names are also not required to be unique across different 
>>> style-family, which could be a potential problem for implementors.
>>>     
>>
>> Yes, I just hit a problem with a document (generated by OOo upon 
>> reading from a .doc)
>> where a text style and a paragraph style have the same name.
>> Can we also include in the future version of the spec that style
>> names should be unique across style families as well?
>>   
> 
> I would like to support this request from my OpenDocument user
> perspective as well.
> It means quite an overhead to find out the style family, every time you
> match in the 'office:body' a '*:style-name' attribute [see 1], although
> the used 'style:name' is unique in over >99% of the cases [see 2]
> Complicated as the different namespaces of '*:style:attribute' [see 1]
> are not sufficient for mapping to a 'style:family' (5 namespaces relate
> to 12 'style:family' elements), but the attribute's element is required
> to solve the relation.
> 
> Regards,
> Svante
> 
> [1] namespace wildcard '*' can be 'text', 'table', 'presentation',
> 'draw', or 'chart'
> [2] different approach could be finding earlier all dublicate style
> names in the 'office:style' section and trigger an extra behavior later
> (overhead as well)
> 

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