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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: On common file formats, was: killer app for KOffice/KDE?
From:       David Faure <dfaure () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date:       2003-02-25 16:03:49
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On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:00, M. Fioretti wrote:
> I've never understood why things like the number of clicks, the menus
> layout, or the toolkit always seemed to be considered as the very same
> thing as the file format on disk. Many developers (in all fields of
> Free SW) need to take awareness of this.

There are more things to an office productivity app than the number of
clicks, the menu layout and the toolkit, you know....
If one could make a word processor by writing only those things, it would
indeed be an easy task - but no, it must also have word processing features :)

> Speaking of formats, you said to read the Oasis/KOffice formats specs
> and signal incompatibilities: what is their exact URL?

http://www.koffice.org/DTD (e.g. http://www.koffice.org/DTD/kword-1.2.dtd)
and
http://xml.openoffice.org/general.html (see the "XML File Format Specification" link to a PDF)

- -- 
David Faure -- faure@kde.org, dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
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