Joerg Barfurth wrote:
Hi Peter,
[snip]
A more obvious approach would be to convert a versioned sxw file to
an ordinary versioned odt file. But that would mean that the new file
contains snapshots of 'versions' that never existed. Depending on
the nature of the file formats involved (I don't know if we support
any other versioned document formats beyond sx* and od*) the format
conversion may not be reversible unambiguously, so you can't be sure
that you can recreate the original document version exactly. Is that
really what you want in your audit trail?
The conversion of the whole document's content is what is required. Any
argument about it being a "new" document because of an enforced file
format change is semantic at best and disingenuous at worst.
When an obviously beneficial change occurs, as in the change to Open
Document format, it is reasonable to anticipate that organisations will,
if they upgrade, also convert to the new file format so as not to be
left with historical files that may not be readable by future versions
of their software. They will not expect data loss during this process.
Regards
Peter HB
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