OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 31-Mar-03

  • 1.  Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 31-Mar-03

    Posted 04-02-2003 12:35
    MINUTES OF THE OASIS OPEN OFFICE XML FORMAT TC MEETING
    FEBRUARY, THE 31TH, 2003, 7PM GMT - 7:10PM GMT
    
    Attendees
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    Phil Boutros <pboutros@stellent.com>, Stellent
    Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
    Gary Edwards <garyedwards@yahoo.com>
    Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, Arbortext
    Paul Langille <paul.langille@corel.com>, Corel
    Tom Magliery <Tom.Magliery@corel.com>, Corel
    Daniel Vogelheim <daniel.vogelheim@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
    
    Acceptance of Minutes of the March, the 24th meeting
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    - The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.
    
    Action Items
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    - Editors: suggest Relax-NG schema changes according to the meeting
    decisions
        - done
    - Paul Langille: post example for back tabulator
        - done, more information might follow
    
    Con call start times
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    The attending TC members prefer to adapt the con call starting times to 
    daylight saving times rather than keeping the GMT time. This would mean 
    that the meeting starts at 3pm/6pm GMT (instead of 4pm/7pm GMT), but 
    that the local starting times in North America and Europe would not 
    change. The non attending TC should get a chance to object to this in 
    the TC's mailing list.
    
    
    Discussion of Work Package 3.3.2 Footnotes and Endnotes
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    The TC unanimously agreed to replace the "footnote" and "endnote" 
    elements with a more general "note" and the "footnote-configuration" and 
    "endnote-configuration" element with a more general "note-style" 
    element. Both, "note" and "note-style" will have an attribute attached 
    that specifies whether the note is a foot- or endnote(-configuration). 
    This allows it to extend the note concept later, for instance by adding 
    sidenotes. However, for the first specification, foot- and endnotes will 
    be supported only. The TC also unanimously agreed to extend the 
    footnotes-position element with values for "end of section" and "end of 
    text".
    
    Discussion of Work Package 3.3.4 Fields
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    The TC members unanimously agreed to extend the text:user-defined with 
    attributes that specify the data type and the value of the meta data 
    that is referenced.
    
    The TC further discussed whether the "is-hidden" attribute of the 
    "hidden-paragraph" field should be moved to the paragraph that contains 
    the field.
    
    The discussion of fields will be continued on the TC's mailing list and 
    if possible, finished at the next meeting.
    
    
    New Action Items
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    none
    
    Michael Brauer
    
    OASIS Open Office XML format TC chair