On Monday 19 January 2009, robe...@us.ibm.com wrote:

By foreign, do you mean attributes and elements not defined by ODF? Then I beg to differ, there are plenty of these, see below.

Obviously.

I am very surprised by this; either I'm misunderstanding what this is about, or the use of extensions isn't known enough by this TC.

Let me point out some examples:

* KWord can save a table style that points to a frame+paragraph style, it does
that by using the koffice:frame-style-name and koffice:paragraph-style-name properties in the
style. This doesn't create a huge interop problem since existing documents are rendered fine by
other implementations, those properties are only used when creating new tables.

* KWord can define the behavior of a frame when a new page is created (for
DTP-like usage where you might want a similar frame to be created on the next page at the exact
same position; another one use case is a company logo in a page corner for instance). This is done with koffice:frame-behavior-on-new-page in the frame style; and
here again it only affects further editing, not rendering of a given document.

* OpenOffice has similar things, using the
xmlns:ooo="http://openoffice.org/2004/office" namespace for instance. or xmlns:ooow="http://openoffice.org/2004/writer" or
xmlns:oooc="http://openoffice.org/2004/calc".

Is this what "foreign elements and attributes" was about?