On 8/18/06, Ariya Hidayat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrew and others, > > Here is my 2 cents: "every file format is unique". > > I doubt it's quite difficult to merge two libraries which handle two > different file formats, unless the formats are very similar (e.g. WP 5 > and WP 6). Thus, you need to have two libraries which - at some point > - will differ a lot, depending on the format that you would want to > handle. > > So in your case, yes, copy-and-paste in the beginning can't be > avoided. But I believe (I'm glad if I'm proven wrong here), soon you > need to invent some data structures unique to WPS which do not have > their counterpart in WPD or which are difficult to handle if they were > to be merged. > > Years ago I tried to make "an interface which rules them all" for all > major word processor file formats. Of course, this attempt failed > miserably (too complicated and humanly unmanageable), and hence my > theory above.
Certainly there are some things that wouldn't be useful to share. The massive amount of WordPerfect byte-group code in libwpd probably isn't going to be very useful in an MsWorks importer, for example. :) I do think that the WPXHLListenerImpl interface would be a very good thing to share between projects though. It just makes creating an OpenOffice.org document so much easier.. -- William Lachance [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Libwpd-devel mailing list Libwpd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libwpd-devel
