On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:11:19PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:05:11AM +0200, Gil Freund wrote: > > Lior Kaplan wrote: > > > > >Maybe http://subversion.tigris.org/ ? > > > > Looks really nice, but is a source code management system (in general) > > as a document management system? Considering that many documents (MS > > Office files, PDF and Images) are in binary format, wouldn't that create > > an unnecessary load in diffing files? > > > > Also, CVS (and subversion) seem very good at conflict handling. While > > this would be a real neat function of a document management system, I > > doubt that a useful OSS solution exists that can handle propriety binary > > formats (such as word). > > > > We could, for the sake of argument, use RTF, but this format is bloated, > > and is only slightly more open then word DOCs. > > > > If you are going in that direction then openoffice uses xml which is > completely open. I don't know what it does with images and such but if > you want to optimize things you could probably link to images instead > of embed them.
Technically an OOo document is not an xml file but a zip archive that contains several xml files. I'm not sure about how it handles images, but it seems resonable that those become simply other zip archive members. The same applies to koffice, IIRC. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
