On Sun, 18 May 2014 16:30:24 +0700 "Urmas" <davian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Jiergir Ogoerg": > > Is there any option in LibreOffice to make it generate _formatted_ > underlying XML files? > > The XML files by LO are consisting of one long line deliberately to > hamper interoperation with a certain well-known competitor > products. As a marketing decision, it is unlikely to change. Having done my fair share of XML-based development a few years ago, for another FOSS project, I think I can say, with a fair degree of authority: That's utter bollocks. If that *were* true, it wouldn't speak very highly of said competitor's products' developers, since XML is, by its very definition, formatted. XML interpreters do not need carriage returns, line feeds, tabs, spaces and what-have-you. All those characters do, from a software standpoint, is unnecessarily bulk up a file. I had to work with "unformatted" XML. I quickly threw together a simple bit of code, using existing (also FOSS) XML libraries, to parse the lines and kick them out in more human-friendly-formatted output. It was not difficult. I doubt I bothered to "format" my XML output. I don't recall. Speaking of formatting, Urmas: Unlike XML parsers, humans *do* need proper visual formatting to quickly, easily and even properly interpret text. That being the case: Do you suppose it would it be possible for you to use an email client that knows how to quote quoted material in something resembling a traditional manner, or must we ever *guess* what's yours and what's somebody else's comments? Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
