From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: [bug] Tables in lists not exported to ODT Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:49:38 +0000 Message-ID: <87d3adjhcd.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87ipkfu8b5.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87lipbda63.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <81aa5n8hnt.fsf@gmail.com> <87obu24s2d.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87hazq6u0b.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59962) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RobKI-0004Mj-SI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:49:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RobKH-0005Ok-Nb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:49:50 -0500 Received: from vscane-c.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.43]:47439) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RobKH-0005O4-Hu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:49:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87hazq6u0b.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:42:12 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Achim Gratz writes: > Eric S Fraga writes: >> By the way, I was surprised, upon reading your comments in the git log, >> that OpenDocument doesn't support tables within lists. This seems like > >> a silly restriction? Given that OpenDocument uses XML for its encoding, >> I would have thought that a hierarchical structure in a document would >> be trivial to represent. Do you know what the reasoning was? Just >> curious! > > You would have to read the DTD for OpenDocument, but I would guess that > this is similar to the distinction between block-level and inline > elements in XHTML. In fact it is exactly the hierarchical nature of > the definition that makes it possible to prevent the inclusion of higher > level elements as sub-elements of their children. > > > Regards, > Achim. Thanks. -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.92.1 : using Org-mode version 7.8.03 (release_7.8.03.179.ge760)