[odf-discuss] Mass may endorse OXML.

[Daniel Carrera]

marbux wrote:
> On 7/4/07, *Thomas Zander* <zander at kde.org <mailto:zander at kde.org>> wrote:
>     Its open source; instead of waiting for others to do it (and blaming
>     developers that don't think it can be done), try to prove them wrong by
>     doing it yourself or hiring someone to do it. 
> 
> It's already been done in MS Office.

No, the Foundation plugin does not edit ODF files with foreign content. 
In fact, it doesn't edit files at all. All it does is translate what it 
can to ODF and dump the rest as incomprehensible gibberish.

Here is some ODF with foreign attributes:

<text:p foo:blk="dfk">
    Foo <text:span foo:eks="dkg">Bar</text:span>
</text:p>
<text:p foo:rej="grh">
    Blip
</text:p>

By your logic, the fact that I wrote it should give you enough 
information to successfully edit it while preserving the foreign data 
correctly. For example, are you confident you can move the word "Bar" to 
the second paragraph without losing the foreign data? Does eks="dkg" 
mean the same thing when it's inside a blk="dfk" as it does when it's 
inside a rej="grh"? For that matter, does a blk="dfk" make sense if it 
doesn't contain a 5-character eks="dkg"? Or does a rej="grh" make sense 
when it is not preceded by an eks="dkg"?

Daniel.