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    Posted 01-22-2006 15:26
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    Subject: Fwd: OpenDocument spec problem (drawing page names)


    Please find below a discussion about a problem in the spec for presentation programs.
    
    ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
    
    Subject: OpenDocument spec problem
    Date: Sunday 22 January 2006 09:14
    From: Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann@zagge.de>
    To: David Faure <faure@kde.org>
    
    Hello David,
    
    When I was trying to fix the the custom slide show feature in kpresenter I 
    think I found a problem in the opendocument spec.
    
    Background:
    
    In 9.1.4 Drawing Pages there is defined that a page name can be set by using 
    the draw:name attribute. It also says that if it is used it has to be unique. 
    Also there is a unique draw:id attribute for a page.
    
    Problem in KPresenter:
    In kpresenter it is possible to have the same name for different slides which 
    I think is good as the user can do so if he wants. 
    The problem is that in 9.11.6 Show Definitions it is defined to use the 
    draw:name of the page as reference to the slides used in custom slide show.
    
    Problem in OOo-impress:
    If you name Slide 1 "page1" and you save and reload the document it will say 
    "Slide 1" as name for the slide. This is because OOo-impress uses pageX as 
    the default when none is there.
    So you can trick OOo-impress to generate 2 times draw:name="page3" if you set 
    no name for slide 3 and set the name for slide 2 to page3. If you do so the 
    custom slide show feature will no longer work as expected. (No bug reported 
    yet.)
    
    To solve the problem of having such problems in the first place I think the 
    OpenDocument spec should be changed to use draw:id to identify the different 
    pages instead of the draw:name as the draw:name can changed by user input. 
    Also the draw:name should not have to be unique. 
    
    Can you talk about this in the OASIS OpenDocument Group please? If you need 
    more information you know how to find me :-).
    
    To solve this problem for kpresenter 1.5 I will add a koffice:name 
    additionally and will use the draw:name as OOo-impress does at the moment.
    
    Have a nice day,
    
    Thorsten
    
    
    
    -------------------------------------------------------
    
    -- 
    David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
    Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
    
    


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