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Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 29 September 2003

  • 1.  Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 29 September 2003

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    Subject: Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 29 September 2003


    MINUTES OF THE OASIS OPEN OFFICE XML FORMAT TC MEETING
    SEPTEMBER, THE 29TH, 2003, 3PM GMT – 4PM GMT
    
    Attendees
    ---------
    Doug Alberg <doug.alberg@boeing.com>, Boeing
    Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
    Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>, Society of Biblical Literature
    Gary Edwards <garyedwards@yahoo.com>
    David Faure <faure@kde.org>
    Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, Arbortext
    Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
    Daniel Vogelheim <daniel.vogelheim@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
    
    
    Acceptance of Minutes of the September, the 22th meeting
    --------------------------------------------------------
    - The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.
    
    
    Action Items
    ------------
    - (Phil Boutros: create proposal for unifying change tracking in text 
    and table documents)
       - in progress
    - Daniel Vogelheim, (Paul Langille): proposal for business charts
       - in progress
    - Michael Brauer: Proposal/E-Mail voting for automatic writing mode
       - done, see
          http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200309/msg00019.html
    - Michael Brauer: Proposal/E-Mail voting for underlining/crossing-out.
       - done, see
          http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200309/msg00020.html
    
    
    Discussion of Work Package 5.3 Style Properties
    -----------------------------------------------
    The TC discussed table formatting properties as described in section 
    4.18 of the OpenOffice.org XML specification.
    
    The TC clarified the the meaning of the "style:may-break-between-rows" 
    attribute: If the attribute's value is false, a table is moved to the 
    next page if there is not enough space left on the current page to 
    display the whole table.
    
    The TC further clarified that cell styles may contain paragraph and text 
    attributes. This means that the <style:style> element for cell styles 
    may contain a <style:paragraph-properties> and a <style:text-properties> 
    element in addition to the <style:cell-properties> element.
    
    The TC unanimously agreed that the <table:table-cell> elements for empty 
    table cells are allowed to be empty, that is, don't have to contain at 
    least a <test:p> element as specified in the OpenOffice.org 
    specification. The TC further discussed whether empty rows should be 
    allowed as well, and what the behavior is if table rows contain a 
    different number of cells. Daniel Vogelheim will further clarify this 
    and prepare a proposal.
    
    The TC further discussed to enhance the specification by table styles 
    that include table cell formatting properties. This could be especially 
    useful for borders or background colors. The idea behind this is to 
    specify a table style that for instance assigns outer and inner borders 
    to a table where the outer and inner borders might be different. Another 
    example would be to assign a certain background color to all header 
    cell. Because borders and background are cell properties, the enhanced 
    table style has to provide the opportunity to assign different 
    formatting properties to different table cells. The TC also discussed 
    whether an enhanced table style could make use of row and column groups 
    and whether XSL-FO and HTML support to specify borders based on row and 
    column groups.
    
    David Faure will prepare a proposal for an enhanced table style. Paul 
    Grosso will check whether grouping of table rows and columns can be used 
    in XSL-FO to specify borders. Michael Brauer will check why the current 
    content model of table row and column groups allows nested groups.
    
    
    New Action Items
    ----------------
    - Daniel Vogelheim: Clarification/Proposal regarding different number s 
    of cells in table rows.
    - David-Faure: Proposal regarding enhanced table styles that support 
    cell formatting properties.
    - Paul Grosso: Clarify whether XSL-FO supports table border 
    specifications based on row and column groups.
    - Michael Brauer: Clarify why the OpenOffice.org specification supports 
    nested row and column groups.
    
    Michael Brauer
    
    OASIS Open Office XML format TC chair
    
    


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