Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > 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. I must be missing something; I went looking for the specs for the gnumeric XML format on the gnumeric website and found only a reference to a 3rd-party site """ An outdated PDF document discussing the Gnumeric file format which should provide a useful starting point was developed by the JWorkbook project. The file can be downloaded from http://www.jfree.org/jworkbook/gnumeric-xml.pdf. """ What I found there had not been updated for *many* years and had very little detail on cell contents.
Where is the "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. > Oh indeed, and the user with a formula calculation engine may be quite interested in checking their own results against gnumeric's results :-) Could even be useful in gnumeric resression testing. >> 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. > _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
