[libreoffice-users] Re: ODF 1.2 Approval and Extensions (was RE: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx f...)

On 09/08/2011 07:48 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> I agree.  I think the question was asked better here, in terms of
> what the consequences for user choice are.  I also think the answer
> about Draw and Impress is nicely concrete.
>
> The only way I can think of other than that is to see how those
> features show up in the XML representation of the document.  Then one
> might look to see if there are any others in documents, but hitting
> one that way may be a wild-goose chase.  I agree, there should be a
> documented list somewhere.
>
> It would also be good to see how such features are ignored in other
> products (older versions and newer) that were doubtless implemented
> in ignorance of those features. (An easy thing to check would be to
> see what Word 2007 would do with an .odt having comments in drawings.
> A standard action would be to silently ignore the extension.  I can
> try Symphony too.)
>
> This may be off-topic for [libreoffice-users] except understanding
> about the interoperability impact of configuration options seems
> useful for those who work with multiple products.
...
This may be of interest regarding ODF validity:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37390
[Bug 37390 - LibreOffice does not create valid ODF.]
Includes links to the April thread & some of the tests that I did using
<http://tools.odftoolkit.org/odfvalidator/>
Also see:
<http://tools.odftoolkit.org/odfvalidator/info/>



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