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Subject: Re: [office] Ballot request for style inheritance proposal
On 10/13/08 05:58, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > One suggestion, one set of questions: > > 1. It would appear that it is appropriate to incorporate this text into the > current draft 7-10. > > 2. I am a little baffled about the default case when there is no explicit > specification of a formatting property in the direct style and its ancestors > (via the style:parent-style-name chain) and the default style of the > style:family also fails to provide the formatting property. > > 2.1 Is this a case for which we are looking to make consistent defaults > and that is being explored separately? This is http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/Add_default_values > > 2.2 Are there also cases where the absence of a formatting property is > best understood as meaning that the property does not exist or does not > apply in the case at hand? There are different cases why a default for a property does not appear in file: - The property indeed may not apply. - The author of the document does not want to provide a value, but wants to leave it up to the application to choose an appropriate value. - There may be no reasonable default value. > > 2.3 If the formatting property is needed, and there is no provision, is > this not an error in the document? (I am trying to understand why the > default in the absence of explicit and default specification is > implementation-specific, and why it is a good thing in this case.) No, this is not an error in the document. Michael -- Michael Brauer, Technical Architect Software Engineering StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems GmbH Nagelsweg 55 D-20097 Hamburg, Germany michael.brauer@sun.com http://sun.com/staroffice +49 40 23646 500 http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering
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