OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

  • 1.  Correction policy?

    Posted 05-16-2007 12:16
    Greetings!
    
    I have been looking at the comments that have been coming in, mostly 
    from MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) and there are several cases where 
    attributes names in the prose disagree with those in the schema.
    
    I don't recall our having a policy on the direction of correction of 
    such errors. We may have one that I simply don't recall.
    
    I would assume that we correct "to" the schema. Yes? Reasoning that it 
    is far more likely that someone has relied upon the schema and the names 
    it uses in implementing ODF and so correcting in that direction will 
    mean the least disruption possible. It may mean that we have some ugly 
    names/prose but I would rather have that (at least to some degree) 
    rather than possibly breaking with some implementation.
    
    Not suggesting a hard and fast rule, but a general principle.
    
    Hope everyone is having a great day!
    
    Patrick
    
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  • 2.  Re: [office] Correction policy?

    Posted 05-21-2007 13:46
    On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Patrick Durusau wrote:
    > Reasoning that it 
    > is far more likely that someone has relied upon the schema and the names 
    > it uses in implementing ODF 
    
    Yes, I believe that is correct. When implementing ODF I have used the validation tools
    much more than the prose; validation detects problems automatically in the program output.
    
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    David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
    Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
    


  • 3.  Re: [office] Correction policy?

    Posted 05-23-2007 12:09
    David Faure wrote:
    > On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Patrick Durusau wrote:
    >> Reasoning that it 
    >> is far more likely that someone has relied upon the schema and the names 
    >> it uses in implementing ODF 
    > 
    > Yes, I believe that is correct. When implementing ODF I have used the validation tools
    > much more than the prose; validation detects problems automatically in the program output.
    > 
    I agree. Unless it is very obvious that the error is in the schema, we 
    should correct to the schema.
    
    Michael
    
    
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