conformance proposal, remarks

Title: conformance proposal, remarks

Hi,

having read the conformance proposal, 7th iteration, I do have a

few remarks/suggestions:

- I'd go for the single-conformance level (the alternative proposal),

rather than having both a "conformance" and a "loosely conformance"

level

(By the way, given the improvements on metadata and other areas in

ODF 1.2, why not create just one single strict schema, instead of

having both a "regular" and a "strict" schema ?

Would people be missing features that can be expressed in ODF, but

not in "strict" ODF ?)

- Producer, G.1.1: "shall not intentionally create any non-conforming

OpenDocument document of any kind."

Remove "intentionally", we're not investigating a murder here :-)

Otherwise it suggests that is more or less OK if you accidentally

create a non-conforming document...

- "It may create documents that do not conform to this specification

if and only if denotes these by a term that makes clear that these

are not OpenDocument v1.2 documents."

I'm a bit puzzled here...

So in case of a word processor, that would translate to making a

distinction between document types in the "save as..." dialog box,

right ?

Or is this about using the correct office:version and xmlns in the

XML itself ?

(+ there seem to be some copy/paste glitches at the start of G 1.2)

- Consumer P1.1: "It may be able to parse and interpret OpenDocument

documents stored as single XML document."

I would suggest to change this to "shall" (if a document is produced by

a conforming producer, I'm expecting any conforming reader to be able

to read it)

Best regards,

Bart