Re: [office] Office-3684

<> wrote
on 03/19/2012 11:51:23 AM:

> From: Patrick Durusau <>

> To: "'ODF TC List'" <>,

> Date: 03/19/2012 11:55 AM

> Subject: [office] Office-3684

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> 

> Greetings!

> 

> Alex Brown writes"

> In 3.10.2 the term "ODF Consumer"
is not defined.

Part 1, section 2.4 says:

"2.4 Consumer

An OpenDocument consumer is a program
that can parse and interpret OpenDocument documents according to the semantics
defined by this specification, and that meets the following additional
requirements..."

> 

> The challenged language reads:

> An ODF Consumer shall use application
settings to alter application 

> behavior only within the dimensions of variability permitted by thisstandard.

> 

> Question: Does this get into implementation versus format issues?
As

> was alluded to earlier today about change tracking?

> 

> BTW, part 3, 2.4 defines OpenDocument Package Consumer. 

> 

> I checked the other parts of the standard and this is the only instance
of it.

> 

> Suggestion: Unless we want to tackle the application issue here (I

> suggest not), then:

> 

> ODF Consumer -> Opendocument Package Consumer

> 

> if no one objects by Friday, 23rd March 2012. At that point I will

> open, resolve, apply and close the issue.

> 

I think the relevant "ODF Consumer"
is the one in Part 1, Section 2.4.  I don't think "Package Consumer"
is relevant here.

The gist of this was that an ODF Consumer
can have implementation-specific behaviors, but only the the extent that
they do not violate another requirement of the specification.

> See: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-3684

> 

> Hope everyone is having a great
day!

> 

> Patrick

> -- 

> Patrick Durusau

> 

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