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Posted by: PeterJudge (Friday 2 May 2008, 4:34 PM)

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OpenOffice defence: Brown is using the wrong version

According to engineers at OpenOffice, the problems Alex Brown raises are non-issues - brought about by errors in his tests.

Brown tested the ODF code using a validator without applying an option that disables unecessary checks, says OpenOffice. He also used a version of OpenOffice that saves to ODF 1.1 - a format which is not going to be submitted to ISO - they say.

In full, our response from OpenOffice runs:

"First, he called jing [an ODF validator] without the option "-i". If jing is called that way, it checks additional constraints defined by the 'RELAX NG DTD Compatibility' specification. ODF does not use this specification. jing therefore must be called with the switch "-i" to disable these checks. If called correctly, the document will validate.

"Second, he created the document using OpenOffice.org 2.4. OpenOffice.org 2.4 uses ODF 1.1. The error message about a soft-page-break is caused by the new element that has been introduced by ODF 1.1 to support conversions to DAISY Talking Book. We have already implemented this element at the request of the ODF Accessibility SC. If Alex had used the OASIS OpenDocument v1.1 schema, then this issue would not have
been reported. Please note however that we did not submit ODF 1.1 to ISO, because it is considered to be a minor update to ODF 1.0 only, and we were working already on ODF 1.2 at the time ODF 1.1 was approved."

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