OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

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  • 1.  Re: [office] text:meta-field

    Posted 10-30-2007 18:28 
    Hi Rob,

to further investigate your idea: Could you please illustrate it according to the sample I posted in:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200710/msg00107.html

Thanks,

~Florian

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  • 2.  Re: [office] text:meta-field

    Posted 10-30-2007 19:09 
    Florian,

Florian Reuter wrote:

> to further investigate your idea: Could you please illustrate it
> according to the sample I posted in: 
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200710/msg00107.html

Rob asked for -- to quote him -- "Could someone please post the specific 
section and paragraph number in the ODF specification which we are 
proposing to change?" and also "I'd like to see a use case posted."

I asked for basically the same.

So I don't see any "idea" that he's proposing; he's just asking for 
clarification of what we're trying to do. Saying that a user wants to 
have multiple paragraphs doesn't really explain *why*. What are they 
trying to do in the example you posted?

I think we should perhaps use the outcome of this discussion to clarify 
the semantics of the different kinds of fields in ODF.

Bruce


  • 3.  Re: [office] text:meta-field

    Posted 10-30-2007 19:36 

    "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com>
wrote on 10/30/2007 03:08:17 PM:

    
>
    
> So I don't see any "idea" that he's proposing; he's just
asking for
    
> clarification of what we're trying to do. Saying that a user wants
to
    
> have multiple paragraphs doesn't really explain *why*. What are they
    
> trying to do in the example you posted?
    
>
    
> I think we should perhaps use the outcome of this discussion to clarify
    
> the semantics of the different kinds of fields in ODF.
    
>
    


    Thanks.  IMHO, a use case should not be identical
to the technical proposal itself.  In other words, a request to add
element <foo> to ODF cannot be adequately explained by saying "Two
customers want ODF to have element <foo>."  We need to
take it up a level and talk about what the user is trying to accomplish
with this feature.  If Florian can do that it will be a great help
to me and others who are trying to evaluate the proposal.


    -Rob


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