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Subject: RE: [office] Thoughts on ODF-Next
Andreas said: > > > Now if the feature were implemented using foreign elements no such > > > problem would exist and if the spec does not change it would be > > > trivial to change the element name/namespace to match the approved standard. > > That is one approach, but not one that we (the ODF TC) have any > > ability to mandate. > While I realize that we can't mandate that and in fact have no control > over whether a vendor calls their format ODF1.3 or whatever, I think we > at least should not encourage that behaviour as suggested. Just my personal opinion - it is a sticky problem. If no one has attempted to implement the standard, then we have no real idea whether it is a complete or correct standard. But implementing a draft, especially in a non-beta product has perils, including having the standard change out from under you. We hit some of this in the signature work - the (proposed 1.2) standard reflects some practices that were incorporated into implementations built on the draft. Some of that was non-optimal, and resulted in compromises in the standard. Some of it helped inform the standard and was beneficial. Overall, I was glad there was an implementation to draw from - made the result less ambiguous, even if there were also some drawbacks. At the end of the day, I don't think there is one right answer - there's pros and cons to each approach.
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