OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

  • 1.  Ballot request for style inheritance proposal

    Posted 10-08-2008 08:32
    Hi Rob, all,
    
    I would like to request a vote for the following proposal:
    
    http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/StyleInheritanceProposal
    
    Below is a copy of the propsal which is the text we actually will vote on.
    
    
    Best regards
    
    Michael
    
    The following text should be added to section of 15.2 


  • 2.  RE: [office] Ballot request for style inheritance proposal

    Posted 10-13-2008 03:55
    One suggestion, one set of questions:
    
    1. It would appear that it is appropriate to incorporate this text into the
    current draft 7-10.
    
    2. I am a little baffled about the default case when there is no explicit
    specification of a formatting property in the direct style and its ancestors
    (via the style:parent-style-name chain) and the default style of the
    style:family also fails to provide the formatting property.
    
       2.1 Is this a case for which we are looking to make consistent defaults
    and that is being explored separately?
    
       2.2 Are there also cases where the absence of a formatting property is
    best understood as meaning that the property does not exist or does not
    apply in the case at hand?
    
       2.3 If the formatting property is needed, and there is no provision, is
    this not an error in the document?  (I am trying to understand why the
    default in the absence of explicit and default specification is
    implementation-specific, and why it is a good thing in this case.)
    
     - Dennis
    
    


  • 3.  Re: [office] Ballot request for style inheritance proposal

    Posted 10-13-2008 10:23
    On 10/13/08 05:58, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
    > One suggestion, one set of questions:
    > 
    > 1. It would appear that it is appropriate to incorporate this text into the
    > current draft 7-10.
    > 
    > 2. I am a little baffled about the default case when there is no explicit
    > specification of a formatting property in the direct style and its ancestors
    > (via the style:parent-style-name chain) and the default style of the
    > style:family also fails to provide the formatting property.
    > 
    >    2.1 Is this a case for which we are looking to make consistent defaults
    > and that is being explored separately?
    
    This is
    
    http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/Add_default_values
    
    > 
    >    2.2 Are there also cases where the absence of a formatting property is
    > best understood as meaning that the property does not exist or does not
    > apply in the case at hand?
    
    There are different cases why a default for a property does not appear 
    in file:
    
    - The property indeed may not apply.
    - The author of the document does not want to provide a value, but wants 
    to leave it up to the application to choose an appropriate value.
    - There may be no reasonable default value.
    
    > 
    >    2.3 If the formatting property is needed, and there is no provision, is
    > this not an error in the document?  (I am trying to understand why the
    > default in the absence of explicit and default specification is
    > implementation-specific, and why it is a good thing in this case.)
    
    No, this is not an error in the document.
    
    Michael
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