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-Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Vogelheim [mailto:] 
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 2:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [office] Multiple object renditions proposal


Hello,

> 
> The current specification mixes the definition of a frame and its 
> attributes (position, size, border, etc.) and the definition of it's 
> contents. I believe the correct way to modify the specification is to 
> add an explicit office:frame (or draw:frame) element and move all the 
> "frame" attributes up to it. It's contents then become 1..n of the 
> existing "frame" elements
> (text-box,image,applet,plugin,object,object-ole) minus all the frame 
> attributes. The order of these elements under the office:frame element

> dictates the applications preference for use with the first child 
> being the most preferred.
[...]
> Notice this not only allows OLE objects to have multiple renditions 
> (the primary use case) but other things like plug-ins, applets, etc. 
> to have them. This seems a simple and flexible change to me.

Yes, it's simpler and more flexible.

The only thing I wonder about is that this allows some silly 
combinations. E.g., what's the semantics of a text frame with two 
text-boxes, one containing <text:p>Peter</text:p>, the other containing 
<text:p>Mary</text:p>? Would there be any circumstances in which the 
second gets displayed?

One could try to restrict this in the schema (e.g. allow only one 
text-box child), but my gut feeling is this isn't worth it; these kinds 
of restrictions translate badly into XSD and DTD. So I'd say we keep 
Phil's proposal... we can't keep people from shooting themselves in the 
foot anyway.


Sincerely,
Daniel


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