OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

This note is in reference to the proposal "Use xml:id in custom slide shows"
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/use_draw:id_in_custom_slide_shows

It seems to me that this proposal is not needed to solve the identified problem.  

First, the existing presentation:pages attribute is sufficient and, at most, a clarifying remark would be useful in the description of the 

Dear Dennis and TC members,

thanks for the detailed explanation. It had quite some interesting things in 
it I did not know.

> 3. WAYS TO TIGHTEN THE SPECIFICATION FURTHER IN ODF 1.2.
>
> 3.1 In section 18.334.19 

Thorsten,

A brief follow-up (and I forgot to attract Christian's attention to this discussion). 

I think we can do 3.1-3.2 immediately in the draft for ODF 1.2 part 1.

The 3.3 comment is an independent matter and we need to look at it a bit more closely in terms of all the places where we might do that in having NCName (but not ID) type where we seem to use string type very heavily now.  The implications of deprecation have to be looked at more closely.

 - Dennis



                                                

					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
                                                

                                                    
                                                        
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From: Thorsten Zachmann [mailto:t.zachmann@zagge.de] 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200812/msg00117.html
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 03:42
To: ODF TC List
Cc: dennis.hamilton@acm.org; 'David Faure'
Subject: [office] Re: Custom Slide Shows: presentation:page-ids is unnecessary

Dear Dennis and TC members,

thanks for the detailed explanation. It had quite some interesting things in 
it I did not know.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200812/msg00102.html
> 3. WAYS TO TIGHTEN THE SPECIFICATION FURTHER IN ODF 1.2.
>
> 3.1 In section 18.334.19 

On Saturday 13 December 2008, Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
> Dear Dennis and TC members,
> 
> thanks for the detailed explanation. It had quite some interesting things in 
> it I did not know.
> 
> > 3. WAYS TO TIGHTEN THE SPECIFICATION FURTHER IN ODF 1.2.
> >
> > 3.1 In section 18.334.19 

David,

I came onto the 2008-12-15 call late and I missed the discussion of that proposal.  So it was not I who commented or offered to clean up the text.  (I'm not an editor anyhow). 

I will turn in a comment to Patrick on OpenDocument-v1.2-draft7-13 to make the change in 18.334.19 on the