OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

Re: [office] OASIS Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 10-Mar-03

  • 1.  Re: [office] OASIS Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 10-Mar-03

    Posted 03-27-2003 07:34
    Hi,
    
    Sorry, I've unfortunately corrected the wrong minutes (10-Mar instead of 
    10-Feb), so please ignore this one.
    
    Best regards
    
    Michael
    
    
    Michael Brauer wrote:
    > MINUTES OF THE OASIS OPEN OFFICE XML FORMAT TC MEETING
    > MARCH, THE 10TH, 2003, 4PM GMT - 5:10PM GMT
    > 
    > corrected 26-Mar-03, original version
    > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200302/msg00017.html
    > 
    > Attendees
    > ---------
    > Doug Alberg <doug.alberg@boeing.com>, Boeing
    > Phil Boutros <pboutros@stellent.com>, Stellent
    > Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
    > Simon Davis <simond@naa.gov.au>, National Archive of Australia
    > Gary Edwards <garyedwards@yahoo.com>
    > Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, Arbortext
    > Paul Langille <paul.langille@corel.com>, Corel
    > Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
    > Daniel Vogelheim <daniel.vogelheim@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
    > 
    > David Faure <faure@kde.org> (prospective member)
    > 
    > TC membership
    > -------------
    > David Faure will become a voting member at the end of the meeting.
    > John Chelsom and Mark Heller stepped down from voting members to observers.
    > 
    > Acceptance of Minutes of the March, the 3rd meeting
    > ------------------------------------------------------
    > - The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.
    > 
    > Action Items
    > ------------
    > - Daniel: Send link to updated TC spec/schemes maintained on OpenOffice.org
    >    - in progress
    > - Daniel: Suggest names for genre elements and attribute for master docs
    >    - in progress
    > - Editors: suggest Relax-NG schema changes according to the meeting
    > decisions
    >     - in progress
    > - Daniel: provide examples for word-processor style lists in the base 
    > format
    >    - done, see
    >       http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200303/msg00001.html
    > 
    > 
    > Discussion of Work Package 3.1.2 Lists
    > --------------------------------------
    > - The TC unanimously agreed to replace the "text:ordered-list" and
    > "text:unordered-list" list elements with a single "text:list", because
    > the information whether a list is ordered or unordered is already
    > contained in the list styles, so that different elements for ordered and
    > unordered lists are in fact a redundancy. This also avoids the problem
    > of overwriting the list type in a style, that even exists in HTML, where
    > the list types can be overwritten with CSS rules.
    > - The TC also discussed the addition of a level attribute to the
    > paragraph element. This allows to assign a numbering style and a level
    > to a paragraph without requiring a list and list-item element. This is
    > considered to be useful by the TC, because word processors allow not
    > only to have numbered paragraph one after another (what can be
    > considered to be a list), but also to have them randomly distributed
    > among a document. Representing the later kind of numbered paragraphs by
    > list elements is considered to be less reasonable by the TC. The TC also
    > discussed to completely remove the list and list-item elements. The
    > advantage of this would be a single concept for numbered paragraphs. The
    > disadvantage of this however would be that in this case even document
    > where numbered paragraphs appear and behave like lists for the user
    > would not reflect the list structure. Also transformations that deal
    > with lists would get more complicated, and the resulting schema would
    > differ from other schemes like XHTML that contain markup for lists.  A
    > reasonable compromise seems to be to have both concepts, list and single
    > numbered paragraphs. This on the one hand would allow to represent
    > numbered paragraphs as list where they appear and behave like lists in
    > word processor applications, without forcing numbered paragraphs to be
    > represented as lists, where this is not the case. Michael Brauer will
    > make a proposal for this on the TC lists and the discussion/voting of
    > this will be continued on the list.
    > 
    > New Action Items
    > ----------------
    > Michael: Make proposal for list/numbered paragraphs.
    > 
    > 
    > Michael Brauer
    > 
    > OASIS Open Office XML format TC chair
    > 
    > 
    
    
    
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