On 06/09/2010 03:21 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 9 June 2010 00:42, RA Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think I understand what your looking for and I like the idea. The ODT and >> ODS files both contain several documents already. The sub-document, for >> lack of a better term, named content.xml is the actual data that is entered. >> In ODS -all- the "sheets" are that one document not individual files. >> > > Andy, I am not talking about extracting the text files files inside an > unzipped ODT file. Or purposes of this discussion it does not matter > that ODF is not a compressed binary. > > Files are things that you can drag around in your file manager. > Documents are things that you can print. > > Wouldn't it be nice to have an expenses.ods file that would have one > spreadsheet for your home expenses, another for your business > expenses, and a third for your hobby expenses? You can do that today, > in OOo Calc. They are called sheets. > > Wouldn't it be nice to have an expenses.odt file that would have one > document that listed your home expenses, another that listed your > business expenses, and a third that listed your hobby expenses? Why > have three different ODT files for these related documents? How about > multiple-language resumes? Why must I keep an English resume in a > separate file from my Hebrew resume? Why can't they both be in the > same ODT file, just as multiple spreadsheets can be stored in a single > ODS file. > >
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