[Doc-SIG] what about OpenDocument?
Chad Whitacre
chad at zetaweb.com
Sat Dec 31 22:51:20 CET 2005
Torsten,
Thanks for jumping in.
> Can't the main XML file be checked-in parallelly?
Theoretically, yes. But that's an ugly hack, IMO, and we already have
one of those. :^)
> Can OOo calculate a diff between two arbitrary versions?
I'm not sure what OOo's versioning capabilities are, although I suspect
that versioning info would be stored in a separate part of the ODT and
not in the "main XML file" (which I take to refer to content.xml).
>>my beef is that the markup it gives us is inadequate, both in
>>terms of encoding information and accessing it.
>
> Well, OOo separates visual and structural markup very thoroughly, so
> I don't understand the issue here.
Sure, but my idea was to overload OOo's standard markup to encode
Python-documentation-specific information, like function definitions and
parameter lists. But when you use an OOo stylesheet to define what
amounts to a custom markup language, then the only hook you get within
their actual markup is a single attribute -- text:style-name -- on only
about four different tags -- text:p, text:span, etc. Again, just another
ugly hack.
chad
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