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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: using kword and cvs?
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-08-24 18:34:21
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On Friday 24 August 2001 12:04, Lukas Tinkl wrote:
> Dne pá 24. srpen 2001 11:56 Thomas Zander napsal(a):
> >
> > > 4. Diffs and replication conflicts:
> > > I think this will get hard with CVS. As there is additional information
> > > stored within the XML file (i.e. numbering/naming of the objects), which
> > > will never be shown to the user by default, even these values can change.
> >
> > I just took a look at saved files, for one thing I was surprised by the
> > huge amount of redundant info saved, I'll look into cutting that down
> > severely!
> 
> Yes! I and Werner did that for KPresenter and it would cut down the XML file 
> size of more than 50% in some cases!

It's been done for KWord too.
Thomas: what redundant info are you talking about ?
Beware of the idea of removing attributes with "default" value from a paraglayout's
XML element. Due to the "default to the style's layout" thing, the defaults are not the
ones you'd think (and it broke kword at some point). And the problem is that if we
omit the layout items that match the style, when saving, it makes the task quite
harder for export filters (they need to start understanding styles etc., which isn't the case
for simple export filters). Tricky.

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