On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 05:10 -0400, jim watson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:33 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote: > > > A Master-Cell-Content doesn't make much sense, does it? > > sometimes it can make sense - for example if content is "Nothing" and it > applies to many cells?
This concept is known as shared string, where strings are stored outside the sheet model and referenced by IDs. Identical strings are shared, and not duplicated. It's probably how Excel implements it, judging by its file format. An effort is on-going to introduce something similar in Calc, too. See Niklas' recent post on GullFoss: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/putting_salstrintern_to_good_use I recommend we come back to this discussion after this piece gets integrated into the build. This may be a non-issue then. > I have no idea about the solution - it is like astrophysics to me ;) but > I do think the principle might be: don't store a thing more than once, > instead store some information about where the thing occurs. We already have a solution in sight, at least for the string data. I personally would like to be more aggressive, and apply similar concept to formula expressions, cell attributs, or even to the cell instances themselves. But saying that it will be hard to implement it would be a massive understatement. Kohei --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
