Idea for solving shadow overlap issue

[jaham at gmx.net]

On Wednesday 20 April 2011 06:49:30 Yue Liu wrote:
> > If that is not allowed in the odf specification you can't use the draw
> > namespace.
> > 
> > I think the biggest obstacle (as often) is to work around the odf
> > specification.
> > 
> > 
> > I haven't found out where it says which kind of style property cannot be
> 
> applied on which kind of draw element, but I found in 17.1 it says "Styles
> may contain additional information that is not defined by formatting
> properties. " And I've test an odg file with draw:shadow in draw:g 's style
> and it causes no problem while open in libreoffice. So I think it'll be
> okay to break the specification.

Well if the spec does not forbid applying a shadow to a group shape, then fine. 
Then the only addition would be to specify the blur-radius as a style 
attribute, right?

Ciao Jan

PS: You might be interested in 
http://tools.services.openoffice.org/odfvalidator/.