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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    RE: Tabular file format (patch)
From:       Juergen Vigna <jug () sad ! it>
Date:       2000-12-29 8:51:14
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I guess it's time I reply to this one (sorry for the delay but I'm really
busy at the moment).

On 23-Dec-2000 Dekel Tsur wrote:
> In 1.1.6, a tabular is stored as follows
> 
> <LyXTabular version="1" rows="2" columns="2">
> ...

> 1. The table/row/column/cell attributes should be written only if they differ
> from the default value (so instead of <Cell multicolumn="0" alignment="8" ...>
> we will, usually, have just <Cell> ).
> 

As Jean-Marc already told this is irrelevant for now (we can remove this
at any time), so I would like for now to leave the redundant stuff in!

> 2. The <Features> tag is redundant. The attributes stored there can be
> stored in <LyXTabular>.
> 

Well this hardly matters and I inserted this tag because I would like to
add more Features to the tabular code and so this will extend in it's usage,
but if XML experts tell me that it SHOULD go inside the <lyxtabular ...>
part I'll move it there.

> 3. There are many redundant <Column> tags.
> Instead, we can use, for example,
> 
> <LyXTabular (attributes)>
> <Column (1st column attributes)>
> <Column (2st column attributes)>
> ...

Yes IMO this is a really good thing to do and the only one we should implement
before 1.1.6 final (as otherwise we will have a quite big format change 
afterwards). This obviously implies that tabulars already created with the
other format will not be read again, do other accept this?

> I've already made a patch that implements (1).

Thanks for the patch but as stated in (1) I would like for the moment
to leave the redundant informations in!

         Jürgen

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