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  • 1.  Re: [office] 2.4.6 Cursor Position Setting

    Posted 11-10-2004 13:46
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    Subject: Re: [office] 2.4.6 Cursor Position Setting


    Hi Patrick,
    
    Patrick Durusau wrote:
    
    >Greetings,
    >
    >2.4.6 Cursor Position Setting, first paragraph reads:
    >
    >A common view setting for editing applications is the position where the 
    >text cursor was while saving the document. For WYSIWYG application, this 
    >usually will be a position within a paragraph only. For application that 
    >provide an XML based view of the document, the cursor position could be 
    >also between arbitrary elements, or even within tags.
    >
    >Suggest:
    >
    >WYSIWYG application -> WYSIWYG applications
    >
    >For application -> For applications
    >
    I've changed that.
    
    >
    >The second paragraph reads:
    >
    >To represent a text cursor position within Open Office documents, a 
    >processing instruction with PITarget openoffice (see �2.6 of [XML1.0]) 
    >should be used. The character content of the processing instruction must 
    >follow the XML start tag content, that is, it must have a name and an 
    >arbitrary number of attributes. The name of the cursor position 
    >processing instruction is cursor-position. It may have arbitrary 
    >application specific attributes, for instance to connect the cursor 
    >position with a certain view of the document, where the views themselves 
    >are specified as application specific settings.
    >
    >Comment:
    >
    >Since this is the only place where processing instructions are 
    >specified, shouldn't we simply say that the required name is 
    >cursor-position, as opposed to saying it must have a name and then 
    >saying it is cursor-position?
    >
    >The reason I mention this is that 'name' is used in the productions of 
    >XML 1.0 to define the PITarget. Granted 'name' in another sense but 
    >possibly confusing in a quick read.
    >
    >Suggest:
    >
    >To represent a text cursor position within Open Office documents, a 
    >processing instruction with PITarget openoffice (see �2.6 of [XML1.0]) 
    >should be used. The name of the cursor position processing instruction, 
    >cursor-position, must follow the PITarget openoffice. The processing 
    >instruction may have arbitrary application specific attributes, for 
    >instance to connect the cursor position with a certain view of the 
    >document, where the views themselves are specified as application 
    >specific settings.
    >  
    >
    I've changed that as well, but added the sentence:
    "The syntax for these attributes /must/ be the same as for attributes
    within XML start tags."
    
    >Hope everyone is having a great day!
    >
    >Patrick
    >
    >  
    >
    Michael
    
    


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