"Dave Pawson" <>
wrote on 06/17/2008 11:19:56 AM:
> 2008/6/17 Shawn <>:
>
> > There has been some talk about defining a "profile".
If I were to say "I
> > want to test the visual rendering of an ODF 1.1 spreadsheet"
- would that
> > work as a high level profile? Or do we need to get right
down specifying
> > sections of the standards definition?
> >
> > Further to that, the idea that a "subset profile" or
"sub profile" can only
> > remove features from the base profile. I believe this may
help to make our
> > jobs easier.
>
> Or the other way round? The base could be a minimal document?
> Then profiles build on that.
>
It can go either way. Some profiles, like XHTML
Basic, are subsets of an existing standard. But there is also a W3C
profile called "An XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile" that combines
standards. In theory you could subtract some features while adding
others.
-Rob
