[odf-discuss] Alternative to the Foundation plugin

Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera at zmsl.com
Sun Feb 4 10:11:23 EST 2007


On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 15:49 +0100, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > I think that extending ODF is damaging. What I hope people will get from
> > my email is:
> >
> > 1. An OXML extension is better than a binary extension.
> > 2. If you agree that an OXML extension is bad, then so is a binary one.
> 
> With the marked exception that you just extended the ODF-specification, where 
> the foundation plugin does not.
> To be clear; extending the ODF specification is _bad_.  Using the 
> odf-specification to add an app extention is great.

Ok. Can you explain how adding OXML as per section 1.5 is an extension,
but adding a different set of tags from the Foundation is not? Both
options work by adding new tags to ODF, following the rules in section
1.5. What's the difference?

Daniel.
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