RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

"Is there an overview of the changes to the standard between v1.1 and v1.2 ?

"It might be possible to have both an odt11 and odt12 backend with odt12 
inheriting the bulk of odt11 and implementing just the differences."

There are some Appendices in Part 1 and Part 3 that describe changes since previous versions.  I 
don't know that they are complete and I don't know if they indicate what might be breaking changes.

For AsciiDoc and any emitter, it would be great if the software indicated the smallest version of 
ODF that was actually required to correctly consume a document.  I know that is hard.  One way to 
soften the blow is to not use a different ODF 1.2 provision when only the ODF 1.1 form is needed to 
accomplish a feature.  In many cases, ODF 1.2 defaults are the same as the only ODF 1.1 capability, 
and it is ODF 1.2-unique ways of only getting that default behavior that will make an unnecessary 
incompatibility in a document.

 - Dennis

OT: Dag, have you looked at DITA, which also is apparently doing multiple-targeting?  

-----Original Message-----
From: Dag Wieers [mailto:dag@wieers.com] 
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 05:05
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

On Sat, 1 Oct 2011, Tom Davies wrote:

> All releases of LibreOffice have used the 1.2 (Extended) by default.  I 
> think OpenOffice was using it for quite a long time before that too.  I 
> think the only program that still uses the older 1.1 or 1.0 formats is 
> MS Office 2010.  I think Google-docs, KOffice, Calligra, AbiWord & 
> Gnumeric (together those 2 form Gnome Office) and the IBM's Lotus 
> Symphony (or whatever it's called) all have been using 1.2 for a few 
> years. 
>
> In LibreOffice you can confirm by clicking on
> Tools - Options - "+ Load/Save" - General
> about half-way down there is a drop-down showing "1.2 (Extended)".  I 
> usually change this to the older 1.0/1.1 in order to be able to send 
> stuff to MS Office users more easily.
>
> If you do have an older program then install any version of LibreOffice instead! ;) Lol

Thanks for making this clear to an ODF novice like me :)

I was wondering what standard I would use for my project and settled for 
ODF v1.1 (given that nearly everywhere, OASIS website and Wikipedia) 
refered to v1.2 as a draft.

Is there an overview of the changes to the standard between v1.1 and v1.2 ?

It might be possible to have both an odt11 and odt12 backend with odt12 
inheriting the bulk of odt11 and implementing just the differences.

Thanks in advance,
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