On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 21:28 -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote: > The implication of your point of view seems to be: gnumeric XML is > strictly a private format -- if you're a third party and want to > make use of files saved in this format, you're SOL.
Why would you be SOL? The file contains all data in an easily readable and completely documented format. Since the formulas are included any results are unnecessary. Yes, some programs may prefer not to need to recalculate the results, but they should do that even when the results are included since there is no guarantee that the result matches the formula. In the world of spreadsheets there have been lots of incorrectly calculated formulas. > > I can live with that, but I'm disappointed. Even the wretched XLS > binary format enables third parties to read formula results if > they're willing to grub among the saved bytes. Good that you can live with that. I would be greatly disappointed if we would decide to enlarge the gnumeric files by 10 or 20% just to include unnecessary formula results. Andreas -- "Liberty consists less in acting according to one's own pleasure, than in not being subject to the will and pleasure of other people. It consists also in our not subjecting the wills of other people to our own." Rousseau Andreas J. Guelzow Pyrenean Shepherds _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
