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Dennis Hamilton commented on OFFICE-2506:
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Bart, I have seen these in the wild. They are tied to the OpenOffice.org Writer/Web subsystem.
Open OpenOffice.org (2.4 is the oldest I have that I can check this with). Select File | New | HTML Document. A Writer/Web window available for WSYWIG HTML editing will open up. If you then select File | Save As ... you will see that there are several interesting cases:
Star Writer/Web 4.0/5.0 termplate (.vor), OpenOffice.org 1.0 HTML Template (.stw) and HTML Document Template (.oth). I can confirm by my own experimentation that *.oth files are not treated the same as other templates and I formed my own judgment about the usability of this as a way to manage web pages and have templates for them.
As far as I am concerned, taking no action on this issue is completely inappropriate, as is grandfathering this into OpenDocument Format without any definition beyond reservation of a MIME type as if it is somehow part of the OpenDocument Format specification. I don't see how we can justify perpetuation of this after five years with no remedy in sight.
I trust that OFFICE-2846 will not be dismissed so easily.
> File extension .oth / what is it ?
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> Key: OFFICE-2506
> URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-2506
> Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: General
> Affects Versions: ODF 1.2 Part 1 CD 4
> Reporter: Bart Hanssens
> Assignee: Michael Brauer
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> Appendix "MIME Types and File Name Extensions (Non Normative)" contains a entry for .oth
> "Text document used as template for HTML documents"
> How does that look like ? Is it plain text ? HTML ? Or just an OTT with a hint that it can be converted to HTML ?
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