Dear TC members,
below you find Patrick's reply to my ODF 1.2 draft 7 review comments
from mid of November 2008.
Unfortunately, we, the TC, did not answer/reply to any of Patrick's
comments/questions including myself.
I think it is a good time now to come back to reviewing our ODF 1.2
specification draft in order to finish it.
Thus, comments/questions/clarifications are welcome.
You will post mine as soon as possible (hopefully before today's ODF TC
call).
Best regards, Oliver.
Patrick Durusau wrote:
> Oliver,
>
> Thanks for the comments!
>
> Note that only some of these answers will be reflected in the draft I am
> posting tomorrow. I passed it to Michael before I finished reviewing
> these comments. I expect to be dropping new versions every two weeks
> until we have all the Sun comments incorporated and proofed.
>
> I invite everyone to review these responses but I want to call your
> attention to some specific items:
>
> 1. 18:402 fo:background-color - in particular the question about
> disabling images for cell, row, table
>
> 2. 18:408 and 18.409 - objection to deprecating these attributes?
>
> 3. 18.411 the separator line question
>
> 4. 18.415 - suggestions for the third editorial note?
>
> 5. 18.421 - changing default value or value space? Which one?
>
> 6 18.429 fo:margin-bottom - note question about whether we are
> announcing a limitation to common styles
>
> And see the question about header/footer. I don't have any particular
> position on this but we do need to be clear about what we intend to
> restrict.
>
> 7. 18.430.1 fo:margin-right - see the question about removing the
> description of margins in tables.
>
> There are a number of attributes that follow with the comment that XSL
> 1.0 references were missing from ODF 1.1. I don't know if these were
> intentional or not. Can someone comment on that?
>
> 8. 18.434 fo:min-height - rule on svg:height and fo:min-height?
>
> Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote:
>> Dear TC members,
>>
>> I have reviewed the attributes in the fo namespace in chapter 18 of our
>> current ODF 1.2 specification draft.
>>
>> Here are my comments:
>> - General
>> -- I am not sure, if it is good to have only the reference to XSL for
>> attributes in fo namespace. Below, you will find some comments to
>> include some sentence about the attribute's purpose. After given such
>> comments to the first reviewed attributes I omit them for the rest and
>> write down this general comment. I think we should decide, if a
>> reference to XSL is enough for such attributes or if some text about the
>> purpose of such attributes for ODF should be added.
>>
> Sure, we could make 18:401 a section that treats fo attributes
> generally, whether we made all the fo attributes as children of such a
> section or not. I suspect having a section would be clearer but that
> should be easy enough to do if we decide to go in that direction.
>
> If we create such a section, that gives us an easy place to treat issues
> such as the non-use of inheritance as defined by XSL.
>> - "18.402 fo:background-color"
>> -- Replace the two "ref-element-..." text snippets by the corresponding
>> reference.
> Done.
>
> Actually, I need to split this out as the semantics of the attribute
> vary depending upon the element where it occurs.
>
> For example, one paragraph, it switches off