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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice as XML editor
From:       Kay Hayen <kayhayen () gmx ! de>
Date:       2007-09-09 16:10:08
Message-ID: 200709091810.08121.kayhayen () gmx ! de
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Hello Jaroslaw,

obviously this should not be about bloat in the GUI, but somehow naturally fit 
into things, but I didn't put to much though on that. I guess, this can be 
added in a non-intrusive form and be entirely absent for the default case 
that the user has specified no extra schemas.

Reporting is somwhat related, but not very. I would rather think of it as 
annotation and presentation mixed into structured information. Like I can 
open my XML data file and attach all kind of presentation. Like making 
the "test script name" tag contents bold, have it appear in footers/headers 
and so on, without changing it "for real".

I don't think, we should ban our data into ODF container fields, ODF metadata 
and so on. That would mean there will be no benefit of XML anymore to us. In 
that case nothing could check validity, nothing can understand it without 
being an ODF parser.

Best regards,
Kay

Am Sonntag 09 September 2007 15:57:21 schrieb Jaroslaw Staniek:
> Hello
> I very much value this kind of processing. BTW, this is somewhat related to
> reporting capatibilities, isn't it?
>
> That said, the only thing in this area I have experimented with (in Kexi
> 1.x), is not XSLT but simple variables defined by ODF (text:user-field-get,
> text:user-field-decls) and iterating/duplicating them for things like mail
> merge, but the idea is familiar:
>
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kexi-devel/2006-March/000062.html
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kexi-devel/2006-March/000059.html
>
> As for GUI, to avoid all-in-one monsters in KOffice, I hope separate app
> (or view/mode/window, as a plugin?) could be provided by someone willing to
> implement this.


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