From koffice  Fri Feb 25 01:47:56 2000
From: Michael Koch <m_koch () bigfoot ! de>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:47:56 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: QDomDocument for each app
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Am Fri, 25 Feb 2000 schrieb Erik Severinghaus:
> David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 08:22:07PM -0500, Erik Severinghaus wrote:
> > > Matthias Elter wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Michael Koch wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Am Thu, 24 Feb 2000 schrieb Erik Severinghaus:
> > > > > > Let me preface by saying that I am new to QDom stuff, and couldn't find
> > > > > > any documentation online in the qk section. That being said, wouldn't it
> > > > > > be wiser to move the main QDomDocument for the apps from the specific
> > > > > > apps to KoDocument, that way we can create one generic app for the
> > > > > > properties which apply to all (essentially the stuff implemented in
> > > > > > KoDocumentInfo)? Or am I missing something.
> > > > >
> > > > > Good idea but not all all apps want to use QDOM, e.g KWord uses KOML.
> > > > > Perhaps this wil change in KWord 2.0
> > >
> > > Yeah, I had been using kimage for testing, and hadn't noticed that
> > > KWord, KPresenter, and others are using KOML. Are we waiting till 2.0 to
> > > port kword et al to qdom?
> > I guess.
> > 
> > > It seems like a bad idea to implement the
> > > KoDocumentInfo for both KOML and QDom.
> > ... although it might not be very difficult...
> > 
> > > I can help with the porting of
> > > stuff, but am not too terribly experienced, and have 0 experience with
> > > KOML and QDom. Plus I don't have more than a couple hours a day to
> > > devote to hacking. :( I guess my question is, what's the roadmap? How
> > > dificult would the port be? Is it worth it?
> > 
> > Torben's ("God") input on the question was that it's going to
> > be quite difficult to port, e.g. KWord, because of the way it uses
> > KOML. I can't remember the exact reason though.
> > 
> > If I were you, I would let the porting to the author, Reggie,
> > unless he can state his opinion on the subject (but I know he's very busy...)
> 
> Sounds good to me. I figured it'd be tough or it'd be done by now. :)
>  
> > Implementing KoDocumentInfo for both (or perhaps so that it returns a QDom
> > document and the app write it back using KOML ?) is certainly easier.
> 
> Ok. Is it a good idea to move the QDom stuff to the kodocument class?

Please dont touch KWord or KPresenter. Several month (3 or so) I asked this to
Reggie and he was near to kill me as I said I have something to commit on my
hard disk.
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