OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

Hi,

I have uploaded a proposal for adding a new document type "Database 
Frontend" at

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22334/12-02-07-database-fontend.odt

Actually this proposal is not new[1]. We discussed it already more than 
a year ago[2], but missed to vote about it. In this revised proposal, a 
few errors and inconsistencies were corrected, and default cell and row 
styles were added.

Best regards

Michael

See
[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200509/msg00006.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200509/msg00003.html
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Michael Brauer:
> I have uploaded a proposal for adding a new document type "Database 
> Frontend" at
> 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22334/12-02-07-database-fontend.odt
> 
> Actually this proposal is not new[1]. We discussed it already more than 
> a year ago[2], but missed to vote about it. In this revised proposal, a 
> few errors and inconsistencies were corrected, and default cell and row 
> styles were added.

I like the idea of a standard way to exchange front-end data.

In the intro text, please change "may actually not" to "might actually not".  The "may" is ambiguous; is this FORBIDDING something, or noting that something might not be true?  I believe it's critically important that documents be PERMITTED to embed the data.

Which raises a more general issue - applications should be able to exchange simple databases in a standard way.  Think citations, data that is graphed in multiple formats, etc... I'm thinking of basically using the table format.  Is there anything along those lines?

A nit: in "3.2 Forms and Report", the word "described" is in red.  Why?  Probably shouldn't be.

--- David A. Wheeler

On Monday 12 February 2007, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have uploaded a proposal for adding a new document type "Database 
> Frontend" at
> 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22334/12-02-07-database-fontend.odt

Here's a number of comments on the proposal, by Jaroslaw Staniek, developer of kexi
(database program in koffice).
They are in the document itself, as notes which appear red in OOo.

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