Problems Using the ODF Interoperability Notes

Question

1.  BIGGEST CONCERN: I am using Internet Explorer 8 (as currently pushed to Windows XP SP3 consumer installations) and I have never seen implementation notes that reflect anything but PowerPoint 2007.  I am sure there must be a setting or filter that I can control somewhere, but I don't see anything that lets me control that.

2. MINOR CONCERN: It appears that the explosion of the specification into a hypertext stops at the deepest numbered sections of the ODF 1.1 specification.  This means that there can be extensive material under a single section and that may give rise to a very large number of implementation notes in a single pane, since some numbered sections contain a great deal of schema and definitions of a significant number of attributes.  This makes it difficult to focus on a single feature and on the implementation notes that are just about that feature.  It is possible to compensate for this in the forum threads that go with a section, so long as commentors/contributors are careful, but it is something to pay attention to.  (I do not propose that there be any change to this, but it is something to keep in mind for the future.)  

3. A LITTLE INCOHERENCE: It is strange that the entries that can be made in this Forum are so different from what can be entered in the Forums attached to the Implementation Notes themselves.  That is, the forms are quite different and it takes mental gear-shifting to know which forum I am in and how to work it.  Editing the HTML, which I am inclined to do is quite different, and the markup is also quite different.

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I have been remiss in not spending more time here.  The ODF implementation notes are a great contrast and complement to the ODF specification analysis and the work to arrive at implementation-independent conformance interpretations, test assertions, and guidelines for testing conformance and testing interoperability.  We are both annotating a hypertext version of the specification, but with different objectives.  However, I can see the two objectives informing each other in useful ways.  I will attempt to form a bridge.

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Answer 1

Good morning! Thank you for your comments. One of my team colleagues will be in touch with you shortly.

Regards,
Bill Wesse

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Escalation Engineer

Answer 2

orcmid,

I am the engineer who has taken ownership of your issues. I am investigating the information you gave me and will be following up with you shortly.

Dominic Salemno
Senior Support Escalation Engineer

Answer 3

orcmid,

Thank you for your suggestions! I have forward these on to be considered. In regards to Section 1 of your post, we do reference other applications besides PowerPoint. For example, please review Section 2.4 (http://www.documentinteropinitiative.org/implnotes/oasisodf1.1/P1-0002.0004.aspx#). notes.

If there is anything else I can assist you with, please feel free to ask.

Dominic Salemno
Senior Support Escalation Engineer

Answer 4

we do reference other applications besides PowerPoint. For example, please review Section 2.4 (http://www.documentinteropinitiative.org/implnotes/oasisodf1.1/P1-0002.0004.aspx#). notes.

Thanks Dominic.  I didn't realize that the implementation notes were sparse with regard to the ODF-supporting Office applications.  I trust that achieving comprehensive coverage with implementation notes is part of the intended direcction [;<).

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