Q: "Am I correct to assume that ODF 1.2 is backward compatible? I.e. an old
application will still be able to open a ODF 1.2 document?"

A: It depends.  There are provisions in ODF 1.2 that, if exercised in an ODF 
1.2, make it unlikely that an ODF 1.1 consumer could handle it properly.  Also, 
the document will be identified as an ODF 1.2 document and possibly in 
unexpected places that might interfere with an ODF 1.1 consumer.  

More A: In general, documents identified as 1.2 often have nothing that 
requires an ODF 1.2 consumer and they will be successfully handled.  There is 
no downward compatibility promise in 1.2 and there is no special provision, as 
some standards have, to help a down-level consumer detect and work around 
up-level features it was not designed for.

Q: "I assume you didn't use LO Writer to compose the 1217 page document. Which 
program did you use"

A: All of the document production was in ODF.  The editable forms of the 
documents are ODT files, and these are provided as the authoritative versions 
of the specification, along with PDF and HTML versions that are not 
authoritative.  Since most of the work was completed by the end of 2010, 
OpenOffice.org versions were used.  Also, some special XSLT scripts were used 
to create some of the content, such as cross-references and statement of XML 
dependencies that are derived by consultation of the schema.  

More A: I am currently working on an Errata for ODF 1.1 and that work is being 
done in LO 3.3.2, including a change-tracked version of the ODF 1.1 
specification that shows the Errata applied. (I won't change LO versions until 
the document is completed.)  Also, an Amendment for the ISO version of ODF 1.0 
was produced in ODF, although the documents circulated for approval at ISO are 
PDFs.  At this time, I do any creation of ODF documents for production purposes 
using LibreOffice.  (By the way, I am an editor on Part 3 only, the smallest 
part of the specification.)

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro [mailto:pedl...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 02:40
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

Congratulations to all.

I believe that a solid open file format is extremely important. 

Am I correct to assume that ODF 1.2 is backward compatible? I.e. an old
application will still be able to open a ODF 1.2 document?

Dennis, one curiosity since you were one of the editors: I assume you didn't
use LO Writer to compose the 1217 page document. Which program did you use?
Scribus?

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