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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    RE: KWord status
From:       Nicolas GOUTTE <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2001-02-12 15:43:44
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I have written (just two sentences later) that any binary data must be 
coded.

You can take AbiWord's files for example. Binary objects (e.g. images) are 
coded using mime's base64. (To be complete, other objects whose description 
is text based are coded as CDATA sections in AbiWord.) It is already in 
AbiWord's (0.7.12) code, even if the only objects AbiWord knows for now are 
PNG images.

Note 1: I don't know if QDomDocument and friends can really use namespaces 
for now! QT's Sax2 interface says it can. I have not tested any of them!
Note 2: This all-in-one file format is good as a file on disk or on a 
network, I do not know how good or how bad it is really as internal working 
file format for KWord. May be it then would still be needed to be split at 
loading time in a tar file or in many temporary files on disk. It is also 
therefore that I think it should be an external filter at first.
Note 3: For completeness, the latest specification of XML namespaces is at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names .

-----Original Message-----
From:	David Faure [SMTP:david@mandrakesoft.com]
Sent:	Monday, February 12, 2001 2:59 PM
To:	koffice-devel@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject:	Re: KWord status

On Monday 12 February 2001 13:12, Nicolas GOUTTE wrote:
> You have (greatly?) misunderstand me! I meant fully XML file. No tar!
> XML-namespaces are used as replacement for the tar file. In *one* XML 
file
> you would have the whole document with any style sheet, embeded object or 
> picture you want.

XML allows to put a picture inside an XML file ??
The QDom* classes certainly doesn't support that !

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