OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

  • 1.  Res: Re: [office]

    Posted 04-16-2009 12:48
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    De: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems
    Remetente:Oliver-Rainer.Wittmann@Sun.COM
    Para:office@lists.oasis-open.org
    Assunto: Re: [office] 


  • 2.  RE: Re: [office]

    Posted 04-16-2009 16:30
    I'm having trouble getting my head around this sudden willingness to have
    implementation-dependent default styles and figuring out if that leaves any
    prospect of broad interoperability at all.
    
    I despair at figuring this out from the specification, so maybe it is a
    matter of implementation practice.
    
    Here are my questions, in the hope that there is an easy well-known answer
    to those who are steeped in this aspect of the specification:
    
    1. Once a document is created, are all styles that the document depends on
    made explicit in the generated document or do default dependencies remain? 
    
    2. If default dependencies remain, if the document is consumed by an
    implementation that has different defaults, isn't there a risk of unintended
    consequences and discrepancy between what the creator had in mind and what
    the consumer sees?  (If the originally-generated document was digitally
    signed, this gets even more exciting.)
    
    3. Is the answer to (1) determined by the specification or is that itself
    implementation-determined?
    
     - Dennis