From koffice  Fri Feb 25 16:50:07 2000
From: Werner Trobin <wtrobin () carinthia ! com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:50:07 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: RFC: Optimizing the Filter API
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=95149823125259

Matthias Elter wrote:
> 
> Werner Trobin wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > As Matthias Elter asked for a filter which is efficient enough
> > to handle large amounts of data (TIFF images and so on) I
> > thought about changing the API and streamlining the process of
> > converting.

[snip]

> > I think this is not the silver bullet(tm), but as some parts are
> > using the KOML library and some are using QDom we have to support
> > both possibilities...
> >
> > Please tell me what you think of it - I'll implement it ASAP :)
> 
> Hmn, but not all data can be stored in the QDomDocument. Think of
> multipart documents like images stored in KWord docs?!

Well... Can we add a KoStore object, David? I don't know the basics
of that stuff, but maybe we can add something like that. Or we just
provide the KoStore, but not the QDomDocument...

Werner