Fwd: Re: XML, forms, layout and Open Office

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Further to my action item regarding OpenOffice, here is a response from 
Michael Brauer, the chair of the XML data format subcommittee at 
OASIS.  I've responded privately that there are no explicit forms 
requirements for FPSC because all we are doing is writing specifications 
... it is up to others to create implementations.

................. Ken

>Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:07:37 +0200
>From: Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>
>To: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
>Subject: Re: XML, forms, layout and Open Office
>...
>Daniel Vogelheim, who is the co-owner of the OOo XML project and also in 
>the OASIS Open Office TC, and I have been asked several times in the past 
>what our position regarding user defined schemes and forms is. For this 
>reason, we've decided to post a summary of our opinion on OOo's xml-dev 
>mailing list. You can find it in the archive at
>
>http://xml.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=752816&listName=dev
>
>Please note that this mail reflects our opinion as OOo XML project leads, 
>and is not necessarily the opinion of the OASIS Open Office TC, because we 
>didn't discuss this topic there (on the one hand, we didn't have the 
>chance to do so, on the other hand, it's something that probably belongs 
>into the 2nd TC phase, that hasn't started yet). However, Daniel and I are 
>very interested in your opinion and in the opion of other UBL TC members 
>to this approach.
>
>Regarding the OASIS Open Office TC: We are currently discussing forms as 
>well, and the question came up, whether there is a relation between the 
>open office TC to the work of the UBL forms TC. From the charter, it seems 
>to me that this in fact could be the case, because an office XML format 
>might in fact be useful or even required to display UBL schemes to the 
>user, either for printing purposes, or even for editing purposes. However, 
>I have to admit that I'm not sure whether I did understand the 
>deliverables of the UBL forms TC correctly, so I might be wrong. What's 
>your opinion on this? Is there a document that I might have a look at to 
>get a clearer understanding the UBL forms TC?
>
>If you think that there is a relation, when the most interesting question 
>seems to be whether you have certain requirements to the open office 
>format, either in the formas area, either in another area. If this is the 
>case, then the next interesting question seems to be whether they match 
>the requirements of (existing) office application, and whether they are 
>all known already. Depending on this, we might consider to address them in 
>either the 1st TC phase, where we mainly try to cover requirements from 
>office applications themselves, or in the 2nd TC phase, where we will 
>address other kinds of applications as well. This second phase most likely 
>will start within the next few months, so it might be a good choice 
>anyway. The open office TC did not decide what exactly will be discussed 
>in the 2nd phase, but I'm quite sure the the form/user defined schema 
>topic is something that will win support.


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