On 24/11/06, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
> Dave (Pawson) noticed that the attribute is optional, and that ODF 1.2
> document therefore may not identify themselves as such. I agree to him
> that the version attribute should be mandatory for ODF 1.2 documents,
> and therefore propose that we change the description and schema as follows:
>
> > All root elements take an office:version attribute, which indicates
> > which version of this specification it complies with.
> >
> > An application that stores a document conforming to this application
> > *shall* use the attribute value "1.2".
> >
> op> <define name="office-document-common-attrs" combine="interleave">
> > <optional>
> > <attribute name="office:version" a:defaultValue="1.1">
> > <choice>
> > <value>1.0</value>
> > <value>1.1</value>
> > <value>1.2</value>
> > <ref name="string">
> > <param name="pattern">[1-9]+\.[0-9]+</param>
> > </ref>
> > </choice>
> > </attribute>
> > </optional>
> > </define>
>
> Some notes:
> - In order to achieve that ODF 1.0/1.2 remain valid ODF 1.2 instances, I
> have kept the attribute optional in the schema. The description
> however states that the attribute actually is mandatory for ODF 1.2
> documents.
I don't agree with keeping it optional.
That would imply forward compatibility, which is clearly impossible to operate.
If that is wanted, I'd suggest wording as used in XSLT from W3C.
If a processor for version X meets a version >X then its response is undefined.
> - I have kept the possibility to use arbitrary version numbers in the
> schema. This shall allow to validate future document against the
> schema, if they don't use any new features. I'm not sure we need that.
> - I have removed the sentences regarding validation, because it is
> obvious and not specific to OpenDocument that documents could be
> validated.
But the 'optional' schema value makes it unverifiable?
I would like to make it easy to verify compliance to a revision of the spec,
not impossible?
regards
--
Dave Pawson
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http://www.dpawson.co.uk
