On 18/10/2007, Svante Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The reason why the XSLT processor requires office:document and not
> office:document-content is that it expects to receive one single
> unzipped XML stream/file, where at least content.xml, meta.xml and
> styles.xml are being merged to one, often called the "flat XML file".
> Even embedded pictures of the ODF document are being merged into this
> XML file Base64 encoded.

Which does sound very wasteful. Especially for large documents
with many images?


>
>
> Is this the best way to do it?

Best for what :-)



> Finally if an XSL transformation is based not on a flat xml format, but
> on the package format, the similar transformation can be easily be used
> outside of the office, for instance as part of a browser extension.
>
> Anyone here who would be able and interested to make such an improvement
> come alive?

Not without some agreement that this approach is supported by ODF.
It's hardly a lot of work though?

I have code that deals with an unzipped ODF document, which I guess
is just the sort of thing that you're referring to?

Where is the manifest defined please? I'm assuming it's an XML format.

regards




-- 
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk

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