On 12 juil. 07, at 21:48, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
I recently saw a post by someone working on it and they had said
that it was a very complicated file format.
The XML itself is ugly. It uses a paradigm similar to RTF where style
is cumulatively applied to each substring of the "block" without
using the inheritance features of "normal" XML. That is for the
structure, in a very simplified way.
Let me quote what I wrote on the OOo4trans (OOo for translators) list
the other day:
Something that looks like:
<b> style 0 <i> style 1 <i> style 2 </i> style 1 </i> style 0</b>
in ODF (with <b> tags for block level tags and <i> tags for inline
tags)
would look like:
<b><s0> style 0 </s0><s1> style 1 </s1><s1><s2> style 2 </s2></
s1><s1> style 1 </s1><s0> style 0 </s0></b>
in OOXML
basically, the style info is repeated in every part where it is,
creating a huge inflation in tags. Because it is not using the basic
functionality of XML tags "inheritance" as in ODF.
But I am not a specialist of either formats, I am just looking at
them from the perspective of the tag structure.
Jean-Christophe Helary
