Hello,

Am Samstag 08 September 2007 10:47:39 schrieb Dave Pawson:
> On 08/09/2007, Kay Hayen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We have an XML schema defined and files according to that schema. In MS
> > Office 2003 it's possible to associate a document with this schema of our
> > own making and open/edit these.
> >
> > It's possible to add tags and content and have Word verify and show the
> > document structure and validity on the fly.
> >
> > When the document is saved, the resulting XML contains the XML tags from
> > our schema, just put into a namespace.
>
> Perhaps your schema should be namespaced to start with, to differentiate
> it from the M$ ns.

That's a good idea probably.

> > The question I have now. Can the same be done with ODF?
>
> Possibly, I'd ask why should we want it?
> There are lots of good XML editors out there, IMHO that isn't the job
> of ODF?
>
> Puzzled.

That's obvious to us at least. We want a two way process, where we have "Test 
Script" writer documents and XML test scripts, where you can create one from 
another. Think of the writer document as a rich annotated form, where things 
can be bold, footnoted, etc. free form WYSIWYG (ODF format is supposed to 
translate that, right?).

You may declare this useless. But it's an entirely different thing from a XML 
editor. It's for us the perfect mix of XML editor with presentation editor.

It would allow our developers to work closely with the testers, while sharing 
one common preferred source of modification, the "hybrid" document.

And I was wondering, is ODF only an afterthought to OOo, or does it reflect 
internal structure as well? Would an application that tags things as this or 
that style, really have a hard time to expose this XML alike structure to the 
user?

Best regards,
Kay Hayen

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