Dave Pawson wrote:
If an application does generate duplicate IDs, then this is an issue in
the application. It's not an ODF issue. ODF uses W3C ID datatypes. This
requires uniqueness.
Yet you do not require implementations to produce unique id values?
We do, because we use W3C ID datatypes for IDs.
>
> The value of ODF perceived by many is that the information stored on
> disk has a far longer life than proprietary formats. If ODF is
producing
> invalid XML (if you want to define duplicate ID's as invalid) then the
> public
> are being fooled.
Since ODF is not an application: Do you mean OOo here?
Please recognise that any implementation is seen as ODF.
I said ODF, I meant ODF.
Sorry, but I do not understand that. ODF is a specification. How can a
specification generate an ID?
If Oasis choose not to validate implementation output, then
that is a weakness IMHO.
The ODF specification in section 1.5 says "Conforming applications [..]
shall write documents that are valid against the OpenDocument schema".
Document that contain duplicate IDs do not meet that constrain, and
therefore contain a bug. If you find ans ODF application that contains
this bug, please submit a bug report to its developers.
Best regards
Michael
regards
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