On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 23:51, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:59:29AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 22:12, Dave Thayer wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 05:26:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 21:50, dave mallery wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > i havent seen anyone mention XML. both star and open office now use > > > > > it. > > > > > it is open by default. > > > > > > > > AbiWord uses XML, and all the data is "encoded" in text, whereas > > > > OO/SO stores it's data in binary format. > > > > > > And OO/SO's binary file is a zip archive containing -- you guessed it -- > > > xml > > > files. > > > > How do you extract the zip portion out? > > > > Unzip will do the trick. Heres what's inside an OO spreadsheet (I > haven't been doing much wordprocessing on this machine):
Hey, yeah, you're right. When I saw the text, I figured it was a hybrid. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ unzip -v test.sxc [snip] > > Looking at the compression ratios it's easy to see why they chose zip > format over straight xml. AbiWord documents aren't huge (or even big), and they are regular, old text xml files. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements | | and make them into big productions." | | Pitr Dubovitch | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
