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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Rep:Re: [KOFFICE] header bug
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-05-10 11:26:35
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On Thursday 10 May 2001 13:02, shaheedhaque@btinternet.com wrote:
> Backwards compatibility should not be a problem: that's 
> what syntaxVersion is for.
> 
> Chaneg the code to use 0,1,2 and bump the 
> syntaxVersion. As long as the reader code in kword 
> itself tests for syntaxVersion, old files will be fine and a 
> new tag is not needed.
> 
> Even export filters do not have to be changed 
> immediately!

But will misunderstand the value that's in the field.
I think renaming the attribute is less dangerous than
bumping the syntaxversion for that, because then filters
simply don't find the attribute they're looking for,
instead of misinterpreting its value.

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
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