URL to the repository's source

Extensions may have a link to the homepage and the source. The maintainer how-to tells us “(you)… can also provide URLs to your homepage and/or source repository.” Please note the “can”. It’s not mandatory.

The idea is to allow users to look into the sources in case of binary extensions, eg. on Github. It is not meant to share content on a different site, although it sometimes makes sense. And it is definitely not suited to link to a sharing site like Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Mega, MediaFire or the like.

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a bit off-topic: I was searching for that kind within the description.xml, but OOo’s wiki at Description of XML Elements - Apache OpenOffice Wiki doesn’t list anything else than the main website. I didn’t find any DTD or XMLNS definition of the libreoffice extension and possibility. Is there such a thing?

In the file description.xml (inside the extension.oxt)

<update-information>
<src xlink:href="https://_ WEB SITE_ / FIle.update.xml " />
</update-information>

The content of https://_ WEB SITE_ / FIle.update.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<description xmlns="http://openoffice.org/extensions/update/2006" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<identifier value="UNIKE_ ID_Of_ Extension" />
<version value=" NEW VERSION ( ie. 1.5.2)" />
<update-download>
<src xlink:href="LINK To NEW VERSION (File oxt)" />
</update-download>
<release-notes>
<src xlink:href="LINK  TO RELEASE_NOTES" lang="**en** " /></release-notes>
</description>

Just for clarification:
the documentation of the extension system is well documented at the wiki for all properties made by Sun.

I do know that there are

<l:LibreOffice-minimal-version value="3.3" d:name="LibreOffice 3.3" />

and

<l:LibreOffice-maximal-version value="3.3" d:name="LibreOffice 3.3" />

Sadly, these XML tags are undocumented (at least I couldn’t find them in our wiki).

Are there more tags?

well, they are documented at Development/Extension Development - The Document Foundation Wiki but not integrated in the copy of AOO’s wiki, in the devguide pages.

so, I end up using

<name xlink:href="https://bitbucket.org/dennisroczek/odf-extension-vrt-network-equipment/src/master/" lang="zxx">Source Code</name>

to link the source code within the definition of the extension. By reading the RFC this is at least not wrong. Would be nice, if there is some “standard” behavior which would be then also documented in our wiki.