On Saturday 04 November 2000 22:58, Thomas wrote:
> > Ok, while doing all these changes, I think we should also change the file
> > format of KWord (that is actually the main reason why I write that mail).
> > I'd like to define a new one which is clean XML, easier to read/parse,
> > etc. Here I'd really like input from the people writing filters (esp.
> > Shaheed), as they know best about file formats. But I think it is really
> > worth defining a new one as the old one was not what I call clean...
>
> I presume you are talking about the DTD here.
>
> The design is pretty much top-down in the XML, plus the way things are
> structured look good to me. It keeps good internal consistency (all
> variables are done in xml-tags that are (almost) always present.)
>
> The only 2 things I would change are
> - make a tag groupmanager which contains its frame(set)s
> - provide the option to keep the styles in an external file. But that is
>   not a DTD specific option.
>
> If I am not mistaking styles can already be based on other styles in the
> DTD, so that is not a problem.
>
> What kind of stuff ware you thinking about?

I do not like the way formats are saved. After the paragraph text we have

<formats>
<format id=.. pos=... len = ...>
<familiy>...
<bold>...
...
</format>
<format>...</format>
</formats>

I'd prefer if we would have a style collection where we have

<style name="stylename">
<family>...
<bold>...
...
</style>
<style name="...">
...
</style>

And then in the paragraph just

<text><style name="stylename">text text text</style><style 
name="another-style"> text text ...</style>....</text>

That's the biggest thing, I'd like to change. Then there is smaller stuff 
like defining defaults and only saving what is different from that, etc.
-- 
Reggie (reggie@trolltech.com)
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