Fwd: DIFF document?

Greetings!

    
A response from Paul Knight on the https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-4083

    
Patrick

      

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            Re: DIFF document?
          

          

            Date: 
            Mon, 6 Jul 2020 14:57:26 -0400
          

          

            From: 
            Paul Knight <>
          

          

            To: 
            Patrick Durusau <>
          

          

            CC: 
            Chet Ensign <>
          

        
      
      

      

      
Hi Patrick,
        

        

        
Yes, working from a boat sounds like a great way to embrace
          social distancing! I imagine Chet would be happy to do that,
          but I'm pretty sure he's stuck landside...

        

        

        
It sounds like you are asking twoÂquestions - why is there
          a DIFF file,Âand why does it show changes - ??

        

        

        
First - why is there a DIFF file:

        

        

        
The DIFF file is intended to show the changes between the
          CSPRD02 stage and the CS01 stage. (A quick look at the first
          page of the document you linked shows that.)

        

        

        
As a standard part of the publication process, we always
          prepare a DIFF to display changes made between Public Reviews,
          or when an approval ballot includes Non-Material Changes (like
          the ballot to approve this CS [1]).Â

        

        

        
After preparing the files for publication as CS01, I used
          the MS Word "Compare" function to generate the DIFF file. (As
          far as I can tell, the "Compare Document" function in
          LibreOffice can't generate a document which is as clear as the
          MS- Word output.)

        

        

        
Second - why does it show changes?

        

        

        
Obviously, because there are changes between CSPRD02 and
          CS01. The changes are in theÂfiles theÂTC approved, as linked
          in the ballot.

        

        

        
As far as I can see, the only changes of any significance
          are the changes in Section 1.5, where two referencesÂto "Part
          3" have been changed to "Part 2".

        
In addition, some of the URIs in the Normative References
          were hyperlinked in CS01, while they were plain text in
          CSPRD02. There's also a reference to [ZIP] in the last line of
          Appendix C that was changed.

        

        

        
I'm not sure what the TC member meant by "the XML did not
          change".Â

        

        

        
I assume that refers to the files in the "schemas"
          directory [2]. (?)

        
Looking at the TC's record of changes, as cited in the
          ballot, does not indicate any specific changes to the schema
          files, so I suppose there's no reason the schema files would
          change. In any case, we simply publish the schema files you
          provide in the approved materials, and don't try to compare
          them to any previous versions. (i.e., we don't prepare a DIFF
          for schema files)

        

        

        
Well, I hope that answers your questions here, but please
          let me know if something is unclear.

        

        

        
Best regards,

        
Paul

        

        

        
[1]Âhttps://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=3460

        
[2]Âhttps://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs01/schemas/

      

      

      

        
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 1:29 PM
          Patrick Durusau <> wrote:

        

        Paul,

          

          A TC member pointed this out to me:

          http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs01/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs01-part2-packages-DIFF.pdf

          and I was wondering how that came into being? The TC page
          links to the

          proper file so I'm not sure where this even came from.

          

          The reason for asking is it is claimed the XML did not change,
          yet you

          can see changes in this file.Â

          

          Thanks!

          

          Hope you are at the start of a great week!

          

          Patrick

          

          PS: Is Chet working from his sailboat for social distancing
          purposes? ;-)

          

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          Patrick Durusau

          

          Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB)

          Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC
          26300

          Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)

          

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