office:version

Patrick, all,

when making the last few changes for the CSD06 Rev02 drafts I've
noticed that the following paragraphs have been deleted from 19.388
office:version:

  
An OpenDocument 1.2 consumer may process a document that does not
provide the office:version attribute or where the value of the
  office:version attribute is
not "1.2" as
if it is an OpenDocument 1.2 document. Any elements and attributes
that are neither recognized, accepted, nor supported by the consumer,
even though identified in XML namespaces defined for use in
OpenDocument 1.2 documents, should be treated in accordance with the
rules for foreign elements and attributes. 3.17

  
    

      
Any elements and attributes based on earlier versions of
OpenDocument for which the same-named OpenDocument 1.2 features are
incompatible need
not be accepted. If accepted, an OpenDocument 1.2-incompatible
feature should
be cast into an equivalent but OpenDocument 1.2-compatible form. See
Appendix G, Changes From Previous Specification Versions
(Non-Normative), as well as previous specifications and any approved
errata for them. 

    

    

      
Any elements and attributes that are neither recognized,
accepted, nor supported by the consumer, even though identified in XML
namespaces defined for use in OpenDocument 1.2 documents, should
be treated in accordance with the rules for foreign elements and
attributes. 3.17

    

  
  
Subsequent processing should
be as if the accepted document were exactly the OpenDocument 1.2
document derived in this way

I could not find the issue that caused this change (that's why I write
this mail), but anyway are in favor of this change. This has two
reasons: 

The bullet list should have been already deleted in CSD06 when applying
http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-2755.
So, the deletion requested by this issue was only partially applied to
CSD06. It is fully applied now, and that's of course good. The last
paragraph is not mentioned in OFFICE-2755, but it of course does not
make sense if the bullet list is deleted.

The first paragraph has been added with OFFICE-2755. But it is
regarding how ODF 1.2 consumers should behave when reading ODF 1.1.
documents. In the context of 

http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-3470

we agreed that it is not reasonable to mention ODF 1.1 processing in
the ODF 1.2 specification. It therefore is reasonable to delete it as
well.

Best regards

Michael

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