Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] Proposed Use case -- Interoperability in vertical and horizontal ODF markets

[Simon Calderson <caldersons@yahoo.co.uk>]

Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>:
> 2008/6/26  <robert_weir@us.ibm.com>:
> >
> > In any case, the ODF standard does speak to foreign elements and attributes,
> > so an exhaustive test suite will of course include examples of this feature.
> >  Since the ODF standard says that such content should be preserved, we would
> > check to see if that recommendation was observed and issue a "warning" if it
> > was not.
> 
> 1.5 requires them to be preserved. That's a fail not a warning

1.5 lists that as a "may" here - you are allowed to throw away non-ODF content, and indeed that's what OOo does.

I'm really unsure of how this is an interoperability issue, though.

Thanks



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