Hi Jan,
jan i schrieb:
Hi
Can someone please help me understand the implications of this:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/17/open-document-format-odf-1-2-published-as-international-standard-263002015-by-isoiec/
Do we also support ODF 1.2 ?
if yes, then we should also tell it, if not what are the implications ?
I thought ODF 1.2 was relative old, but I might be wrong.
thanks for any information.
In regard to marketing, read
http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/announce/msg00240.html
ODF 1.2 is not old, but the current version of the standard. Work has
started for an errata to 1.2 and for a version 1.3, but both are in a
very early stage. There are currently only about ten active members in
the Technical Committee and they do not work on the standard in full
time [in my case all is in my spare time], therefore the progress is
very slow.
ODF 1.2 is the native format for documents generated by AOO, but there
exists still some elements in ODF 1.2, which AOO does not support.
ODF 1.2 is an implementer driven standard. You should not think, that
there is a group of people, who invents the standard, and then
application developers will implement it. That is not the way
standardization works. What really happens is, that the application
developers implement features to satisfy their customers. And when this
feature is not only implemented in one application, but in others too,
then this feature is considered to go into the next version of the
standard. Currently those features are of interest, which improve
interoperability with OOXML, and "change tracking" is of special interest.
Therefore the file format is not "ODF 1.2" but "ODF 1.2 extended". AOO
writes always "ODF 1.2. extended", LO has an option to write pure "ODF
1.2". The ODF 1.2 standard uses the mechanism of namespaces to make such
extensions possible. When such feature goes into the standard, then the
code has to be changed to read and write the new standardized element.
On reading a document, the element in AOO namespace will then be mapped
to the corresponding element from the standard. Such change is not
really difficult, because AOO does not work on the file format directly
but has its own internal model.
Kind regards
Regina
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