OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

  • 1.  Re: [office] Content Regions in ODF

    Posted 05-09-2008 11:40 
    Hi,

in terms of a constructive discussion it would really be great to understand not only what you don't want but also what you want.

You say its unnecessary. Can you explain why? What alternative encoding do you have in mind?

So where do you think we should invest our good money ;-)

It would really be great to understand the alternatives 'cause I'm not a big fan the start-/end- stuff either but I'm not aware of  better alternatives...

Thanks very much,

~Florian


>>> Bob Jolliffe


  • 2.  Re: [office] Content Regions in ODF

    Posted 05-09-2008 14:22 

    For example, we could have a single
mechanism for noting the structure of begin/end or arbitrary content that
doesn't follow a simple nesting model.  And then have a way of associating
semantics with it.

    The way we have it now seems unfactored.
  Is there a way we can better express the structure of the things
that Patrick listed with a single mechanism, and then give them semantics
with a common mechanism. Think div and CSS.

    Especially since this type of structure
seems core to Word's run-oriented text model, I expect we'll see more and
more requests for adding features like this in the future.  So getting
the core structural aspect of it defined will help us integrate future
related proposals as well.

    -Rob



    

    

    
"Florian Reuter"
<freuter@novell.com> 

    05/09/2008 07:39 AM

    		

    

    


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    Hi,

    
in terms of a constructive discussion it would really be great to understand
not only what you don't want but also what you want.

    
You say its unnecessary. Can you explain why? What alternative encoding
do you have in mind?

    
So where do you think we should invest our good money ;-)

    
It would really be great to understand the alternatives 'cause I'm not
a big fan the start-/end- stuff either but I'm not aware of  better
alternatives...

    
Thanks very much,

    
~Florian


    
>>> Bob Jolliffe <bobj@dst.gov.za> 05/08/08 8:05 PM >>>
    
Absolutely agree with the sentiment.  I don't know how we orginally
got into this -start -end convention, but it is really ugly and unnecessarily.
 Also agree it is not an odf 1.2 issue, but let us at least flag it
as undesirable and avoid pouring good money after bad.

    
Regards
    
Bob

    

    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                        
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