Re: Conformance Testing for OpenDocument

OK. I'm in Russia right now, but am returning tomorrow. I'll contact the 
Sun folks after I return to California...


Karl Dubost wrote:

>
> Hi,
> (Patrick Curran, a question for you)
>
> there's a discussion on OASIS mailing list about Conformance Testing  
> for OpenDocument format. I wonder if someone from the list is  
> participating to this mailing-list and maybe could recommend part of  
> the materials we have produced in the QA WG. They seem to have  
> questions, we are addressing in our documents.
>
> I see in the list of attendees of their last meeting.
>
> (edited to remove email addresses and spam, see the original message  
> for email.)
> [[[
> Attendees
> ---------
> Michael Brauer (chair) , Sun Microsystems
> Patrick Durusau
> Gary Edwards
> David Faure
> Yue Ma, IBM
> Tom Magliery, Blast Readius
> Lars Oppermann, Sun Microsystems
> Florian Reuter, Sun Microsystems
> ]]] - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200510/msg00009.html
>
> There are a few people from Sun, Maybe Patrick could contact these  
> people.
>
>
>
> * June 2005
> [[[
> General Discussion
> ------------------
> Discussion on database format proposal will continue.
>
> Conformance and conformance testing is something many people seem to be
> asking for. (Maybe even a test-suite). Florian will post some examples
> for conformance rules that can be used as a base for further discussion.
>
> On the topic of formula language standardization, Nathaniel is trying to
> find people at IBM who might take up the work which has been started by
> David Wheeler on a docuemntation for an interoperable formula language
> for spreadsheet applications
>
> New Action Items
> ----------------
> Florian: post some examples for conformance testing
> ]]] - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200506/msg00020.html
>
>
> * June 2005
>
> [[[
> On conformance, Florian outlined a possible model as a starting point
> for discussuin. Conformance would therein be gauged by a list, that
> expresses, for every feature of OpenDocuemnt, whether an application is
> implementing it on a "content only", "structural" or "style" level,
> where each level implies the previous. Problems that were seen during
> the discussion were, that such a list would be very lengthy and of
> limited use to the casual user selecting an application. Furthermore, it
> cannot be said, how exactly each feature is to be rendered in every
> situation, so visual or "style" conformance would be hard to judge.
> Lasr suggested, that XSL-FO might be used to describe the rendering of
> each feature, the usefullness and maintainability of such an effort
> however remains questionable.
> A general issue that was derived from the discussion, is the question on
> how layout and visual presentaion are relevant for the work of the TC
> (and whether they are at all).
> ]]] - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200506/msg00023.html
>

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