OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

On Wednesday 04 February 2009, you wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> I'm wondering how your thoughts are currently regarding ODF conformance, 
> and the discussion on the TC list.
> 
> If I understand correctly, originally you were concerned that the new 
> conformance language would eliminate some extensions that KOffice wrote 
> into documents.  Michael's latest proposal allows extensions in 
> 

David,

Thank you for pointing out that there are useful and benign uses of foreign
elements in 

On Friday 06 February 2009, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> David,
> 
> Thank you for pointing out that there are useful and benign uses of foreign
> elements in 

Hi David,

wouldn't it be an option to store the formatting properties in question 
as application settings? This would clearly identify them as being 
application specific. You may use the name of the style in the settings 
to identify the style to which them belong. And to identify a frame, you 
can use either its name, or its xml:id.

Best regards

Michael

On 06.02.09 11:18, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 February 2009, you wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I'm wondering how your thoughts are currently regarding ODF conformance, 
>> and the discussion on the TC list.
>>
>> If I understand correctly, originally you were concerned that the new 
>> conformance language would eliminate some extensions that KOffice wrote 
>> into documents.  Michael's latest proposal allows extensions in 
>> 

On Monday 09 February 2009, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> wouldn't it be an option to store the formatting properties in question 
> as application settings? This would clearly identify them as being 
> application specific. You may use the name of the style in the settings 
> to identify the style to which them belong. And to identify a frame, you 
> can use either its name, or its xml:id.

OK, why not.

I'd like to note that any of the "harmful" extensions people have thought of,
and are trying to prevent, can also be done this way ;-)

-- 
David Faure,