OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

  • 1.  Maybe it is just me

    Posted 07-27-2010 19:22 
      Greetings!

Probably by mistake but while I was searching for an issue to see if I 
had already entered it, I looked at the text search JIRA was actually 
performing.

Looks like JIRA splits words written with the a colon, ":" into two words.

Have to enclose them in double quotes to avoid this.

Gee, why would anybody at OASIS ever write a string that had a colon ":" 
in it? Particularly in markup standards? Or want to search for such a 
string?

What is even stranger is that we have the major enterprise software 
vendors in the world as OASIS sponsors and TCs are equipped with 
laughable technical infrastructure for their work.

Sorry, I go back to posting issues and editing.

If the people paying the freight don't care, my complaining isn't going 
to change anything.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)

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  • 2.  RE: [office] Maybe it is just me

    Posted 07-27-2010 19:33 
    Patrick,


hmmz, it appears to be a Jira bug / feature ...

http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-12230


Bart


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From: Patrick Durusau [patrick@durusau.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:21 PM
To: ODF office
Subject: [office] Maybe it is just me

  Greetings!

Probably by mistake but while I was searching for an issue to see if I
had already entered it, I looked at the text search JIRA was actually
performing.

Looks like JIRA splits words written with the a colon, ":" into two words.

Have to enclose them in double quotes to avoid this.

Gee, why would anybody at OASIS ever write a string that had a colon ":"
in it? Particularly in markup standards? Or want to search for such a
string?

What is even stranger is that we have the major enterprise software
vendors in the world as OASIS sponsors and TCs are equipped with
laughable technical infrastructure for their work.

Sorry, I go back to posting issues and editing.

If the people paying the freight don't care, my complaining isn't going
to change anything.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

--
Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)

Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net
Homepage: http://www.durusau.net
Twitter: patrickDurusau


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  • 3.  RE: [office] Maybe it is just me

    Posted 07-27-2010 20:28 
    It looks like the replacement of ":" with SP is a bug unless that happens
only on unquoted input.

On unquoted input, this is common for many Web search engines around the
world, some quite prominent ones.  The use of quotes around phrases that
contain special punctuation (and spaces) is the common solution, although it
is still not always the best.  That is, the punctuation may be masked
somehow, but at least the structure of the phrase holds together.

Oddly, desktop search and the searches inside of office-productivity
software seem to be more forgiving in the other direction.  I can search
this note for :// (no quotes) just fine, but if I give "://" to the in-note
search, there are no hits.

The only time I run across cognitive-dissonance with these things is when I
use my desktop search that also extends to the web if I want.  When the
rules change from one to the next, it is weird.  In fact, my desktop search
refuses to find :// on my computer, whether or not I put it in quotes.  But
if I search for hmmz then this note and Bart's come up immediately.

 - Dennis


    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                        
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  • 4.  RE: [office] Maybe it is just me

    Posted 07-27-2010 20:51 
    Of course, once I typed "://" into the message, an in-message search for
"://" finds that occurrence, and now it finds all the three occurrences
here.

Time to get on-topic, lots of JIRA targets for me to fix up, errata to
review, ...


    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                        
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