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Subject: Re: [office] text:meta-field
Hi Dave, good question :-) The thing is that there are documents out there using this :-( Mainly these are "Description"-like fields. E.g. Patient Name: ______ Patient Number: ________ Amnamese: Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla [TABLE] bla bla bla My question is: Do we want to be able to encode these document in OpenDocument? ~Florian >>> "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com> 10/28/07 5:35 PM >>> On 28/10/2007, Florian Reuter <freuter@novell.com> wrote: > Hi Svante, > > You're right. A sequence of fields is not a solution. > > It can contains anything: tables, pictures, etc. So what purpose would a table serve spread across markup boundaries? This appears to be breaking regular markup for no apparent reason. DaveP > > > >> My request is: Can we additionally add a <text:meta-field-start/> and a <text:meta-field-end/>? > >> > > > > For the rest, background on this conversation is here: > > > > <http://florianreuter.blogspot.com/2007/07/field-enhancement-proof-of-concept.html> > > > > So Florian has been doing some good (and really needed) work on > > upgrading field support in OOo, and it struck me this looks like how I > > would expect the new text:meta;field to be implemented. So I asked > > Florian about that. > > > > My guess is he's using bookmarks, since there's nothing else he can > > use AFAIK. It seems he has a use case that is not covered by > > text:meta-field, however, which is a field which spans paragraphs. > > > > I would say, if we agree this is a reasonable use case, Florian's > > proposal makes sense. I can't think of any other good way to handle > > it. It would silly for him to have to use bookmarks for one kind of > > generic field output, and text:meta-field for another, where they are > > otherwise essentially the same. > > > What does such a paragraph crossing field may contain aside of paragraph > content? > I assume a sequence of text:meta-fields is not a solution for this problem? > > Svante > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS > at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php > > -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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