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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: OpenOffice.org bloat article
From:       Tomas Mecir <mecirt () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-10-28 19:48:15
Message-ID: 492258b10510281248l44330829occ2ebca9bc787491 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 10/28/05, Robert Knight <robertknight@gmail.com> wrote:
> > There are so many things we can do, if only people actually started doing
> it..
>
> But what things exactly and how would they be useful?  This would need
> some careful planning to be worthwhile.
>
> > Save is already implemented by a serilalized XML writer though, if I
> > understand it correctly - so loading shouldn't be that hard ... We
> > just need to analyze whether we need some information that gets saved
> > later on than where we need it - if not, then load should be quite
> > straightforward; and even if we do, we could make two passes or use
> > some other trick, still better than DOM-based approach.
>
> So if I understand correctly, KSpread currently loads the entire
> contents of the XML files into various memory structures before it
> parses them?  Ouch!

Exactly. It was already discussed in the past, but nobody has done
anything with it yet, because it's quite a big job. But it surely is
something that needs to be rewritten. There's some bug report about it
too in the bugzilla.

/ Tomas
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