hi André, Andre Schnabel wrote:
[snip some stuff that i unfortunately know nothing about] > But from a users POV, this is rather puzzling. At the one hand we > try to promote ODF as standard - we even go that far to introduce > venodr independet icons for ODF files (as we want to show, that ODF > is ODF, no matter what application you use). At the other hand, we now > have three flavours of ODF in OOo and none of these is the ISO standard > (what is ODF 1.0). it seems there is hope that the weird situation of the ISO standard being based on the outdated OASIS standard 1.0 will be improved: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/group_public/email/office/200909/msg00162.html <quote> * Rob and Dennis reported on the recent meeting of JTC1/SC34 Ad Hoc Group 3 on maintenance of ISO/IEC 26300 [...] - SC34 will request that we submit [OASIS] ODF 1.1 in a form where it can be processed as an amendment of [ISO] ODF 1.0 </quote> so there seem to be plans to update ISO ODF 1.0 to incorporate the enhancements from OASIS ODF 1.1. of course, i have no idea how long it will take until that receives the official anointment from ISO; these things tend to take a long time... regards, michael -- "C++ ... was one of these things like MS-DOS that nobody took seriously because who would ever fall for a joke like that?" -- Alan Kay --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
