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------- Additional comments from philhi...@openoffice.org Tue Jun 2 15:10:49 +0000 2009 ------- Another thing to bear in mind is that my proposal of handling the msoxl namespace with Excel-compatible semantics does not answer the question of interoperability with other ODF implementations that already work in an Excel-like way. Implementing this would give OOo interoperability with Excel, but other spreadsheet applications e.g. Google Docs would evaluate OOo formulae differently to OOo (in respect of string conversion). In my ideal world, OOo should be the gold standard for behaviour in the default ODF namespace that OOo puts its formulae in, and other implementations should change their behaviour in that namespace, and all legacy Excel-compatible behaviour should be shunted out into the msoxl namespace. To me, this is the holy grail situation - Excel spreadsheets continue to work as they always have, and OOo spreadsheets continue to work as they always have, and the end user can migrate formulae from "old" behaviour to "new" if they want, or vice versa. The thorny cases would be down to ODF spreadsheets created with other tools whose default behaviour is Excel-like. Is there a way to tell what tool created the document, and pop up a dialog box asking the user if they want to shunt all formulae into the msoxl namespace the first time a Google Docs ODF file is opened in OOo? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sc.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sc.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
