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Re: [office] Proposal: Footnote reference Class

  • 1.  Re: [office] Proposal: Footnote reference Class

    Posted 09-23-2004 14:46
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    Subject: Re: [office] Proposal: Footnote reference Class


    On Thursday 23 September 2004 16:40, Michael Brauer wrote:
    > Dear TC members,
    > 
    > some time ago we agreed to merge the footnote element <text:footnote> 
    > and endnote element <text:endnote> into a single <text:note> element, 
    > where a new "text:note-class" attribute specifies whether the note 
    > actually is a footnote or an endnote.
    > 
    > At the same time, we merged the elements for text fields that contain a 
    > reference to a foot- or endnote (<text:footnote-ref> and 
    > <text:endnote-ref>) into a single <text:note-ref> that does not have 
    > "text:note-class" attribute. I in fact don't know what our reasons for 
    > not having these attribute for note references were, but I would like to 
    > propose to add it to the <text:note-ref> element for two reasons:
    > 
    > 1. The <text:note-ref> element references foot- and endnotes by names. 
    > In the schema, these names are not ID's, but only strings. That means 
    > that foot and endnotes may have the same name, and that a 
    > <text:note-ref> that does not specify what kind of note it references 
    > may become ambiguous.
    > 2. Note references may reference notes that are below the reference in 
    > the text. In this case, the type of the note might not be known when the 
    > note reference is read. This may cause problems for applications that 
    > differ between footnotes and endnotes either in its document model or in 
    > the view they craete fo a document. This issue might become more severe 
    > than we add new note types. The possibility to do so actually was one 
    > reason why we merged foot- and endnotes.
    
    So the proposal is to add a text:note-class attribute to <text:note-ref>, where
    this attribute can be either "footnote" or "endnote"?
    Or do I misunderstand the proposal?
    
    -- 
    David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
    Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
    


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