OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

On Wednesday 11 January 2006, Lars Oppermann wrote:
> Unique Names for Automatic Styles:
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200512/msg00020.html
> currently, the specification does not require the name of automatic 
> styles to be unique, for styles that are defined in styles.xml and in 
> content.xml.
> A future version of the spec should at least contain a 
> 'SHOULD'-assertion on style names being unique.
> Style names are also not required to be unique across different 
> style-family, which could be a potential problem for implementors.

Has this been added to the ODF-1.1 specification? I cannot find it.

We noticed that OOo-2.3 still saves different automatic styles with the same name 
in content.xml and in styles.xml, which still gives us trouble in KOffice.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).

Hi,

David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 January 2006, Lars Oppermann wrote:
>> Unique Names for Automatic Styles:
>> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200512/msg00020.html
>> currently, the specification does not require the name of automatic 
>> styles to be unique, for styles that are defined in styles.xml and in 
>> content.xml.
>> A future version of the spec should at least contain a 
>> 'SHOULD'-assertion on style names being unique.
>> Style names are also not required to be unique across different 
>> style-family, which could be a potential problem for implementors.

The current wording in the ODF 1.2 spec (section 15.1.1) is:

"The style:name attribute identifies the name of the style. This 
attribute, combined with the style:family attribute, uniquely identifies 
a style. The 

On Thursday 24 January 2008, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
>  It is recommended that applications do 
> not generate names that are used already for styles with the given 
> family contained in the 

On Monday 04 February 2008, David Faure wrote:
> I know the difference between the two sentences (the one you added is about
> other office:styles elements in other xml files), but I think it should be said in
> a clearer way. Maybe "... 

David,

David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 04 February 2008, David Faure wrote:
>   
>> I know the difference between the two sentences (the one you added is about
>> other office:styles elements in other xml files), but I think it should be said in
>> a clearer way. Maybe "... 

David, all,

David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 04 February 2008, David Faure wrote:
>> I know the difference between the two sentences (the one you added is about
>> other office:styles elements in other xml files), but I think it should be said in
>> a clearer way. Maybe "... 

On Friday 22 February 2008, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
> "It is recommended that applications generate distinct sets of names for
> automatic styles stored in the content.xml and styles.xml subdocuments
> (see section 2.1), and that are also distinct from the names used in the
>