https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93104
--- Comment #4 from Maxim Monastirsky <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Olivier Hallot from comment #0) > "binary" format that allows a very fast opening/saving of the data. Any source for such claims? Does Excel open xlsx file much slower than xls? > I once stumbled into such beast with a xls of 200MB that was unusable > when converted to ODF. Then you should report it as a bug, and it should be fixed. It's not a reason to invent a new format (and we already have too much of them to maintain). > So why not implement a "binary" ODF file format I don't understand. "ODF" is all about XML, if it's not XML, then it's not ODF. > Like "Flat ODF", where data is unzipped and with just one file Even MS Excel binary format is actually a container for several files ("streams"), just like ZIP. It's just a different format than ZIP. > * does not need to be compliant with any other standard, > * does not need to care about interoperability, So what's the point of such format if it creates vendor lock-in? We already had once binary formats in StarOffice/OOo days, and we dropped them, because of this. (Not to mention that XML format is easy to fix by hand if it gets some corruption.) > * will load and save much faster, See above. You can't claim such thing without proving it. The XML parsing overhead is not so high. And after all it depends on implementation. I'm sure that a filter of a binary format could be horribly slow, if poorly implemented. > * "use at your own risk". And you expect that people will follow this? Even now people don't follow the recommendation of working with ODF, and exporting to DOC/DOCX/whatever only if you need to open the file with MS Office. Even worse - people keep saving to MS Word/Excel 2003 XML formats, although it's known to be in a bad state, and data loss is almost guaranteed with each save. So IMHO this bug should be closed as WONTFIX. You can also ask on the dev ml. I'm pretty sure you'll get there exactly the same response. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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