[ODFPlugtest] MSO does not read LO files

[Andreas Guelzow]

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:54 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:

> My recommendation is that ODF 1.2 producers should not include a
> <manifest:manifest> manifest:version="1.2" attribute unless the
> manifest is actually introducing something that *requires* ODF 1.2
> manifest processing to get right. 

Not including the attribute means that file as a whole will not be valid
ODF. The attribute is not optional but required by the 1.2 schema.
Simply said,  MS Office 2010 does cannot handle ODF1.2. I think
suggesting that producers violate ODF1.2 is absolutely the wrong thing
to do. If members of the ODF TC feel that this is a problem, it is not
too late to change the ODF1.2 standard. 


> (This is embarrassing.  I think I drafted the text that made this new
> attribute usage mandatory.  I wasn't thinking about down-level
> consequences, and that is not like me.  I still think producers should
> make the deviation rather than be slavish about conformance here,
> because interoperability is more important in this case.  I don't know
> if we can relax this with an errata or not.)

So in which cases is conformance not important? 

Andreas
> 
> Clearly, "Corrupted Document" is also rather heavy-handed (the
> *Office.org messages and the Microsoft Office messages to this effect
> are essentially identical).



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Andreas Guelzow <aguelzow at pyrshep.ca>