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    Posted 11-14-2004 23:55
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    Subject: Re: [office] 2.4.6 Cursor Position Setting


    Michael,
    
    Agreed.
    
    Hope you are having a great day!
    
    Patrick
    
    Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
    > 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
    > 
    > 
    
    
    -- 
    Patrick Durusau
    Director of Research and Development
    Society of Biblical Literature
    Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
    Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
    Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
    
    Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
    
    
    


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