Dave Land wrote:
On Jun 14, 2005, at 9:59 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
Since it saves all the versions in one file as diffs in a proprietary
undocumented format I would worry about the fragility of the resulting
file and how to recover *any* version should it get corrupted.
In Word, this is true, and it's a reason I didn't recommend it.
I haven't had a Word doc get corrupted since I stopped using floppies.
It isn't pretty, but Word Versions are an option.
Despite my resistance to OpenOffice.org (which, incidentally, is the True
Name of the suite, not OpenOffice, for some kind of trademark reasons),
it at least uses a well-documented, internationally-standardized format:
OpenDocument (http://books.evc-cit.info/odbook/ch01.html). The files are
XML -- plain old text.
Word 2003 can output (not by default, although there may be setting to
switch it to default) a semi-decent XML DOC format that adheres to a
schema you can find. Not a "standard", but at least open to exploration.
The next Office will move past the ugly binary formats and use XML files
by default! These new XML filetypes will also be transitioned as an
option for the older versions.
http://blog.worldmaker.net/node/116
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