"Uncompressed XML Files" format variants

[Inge Wallin]

On Monday, November 12, 2012 15:22:01 Jos van den Oever wrote:
> On 11/12/2012 01:34 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I would propose to remove the option "Uncompressed XML Files" for non-
> > developer buils, or positively said, only enable it for developer builds.
> > Reasoning:
> > * only confuses the user ("what is the difference to compressed?")
> > * cannot be opened in other ODF programs
> > * results in data without a mimetype, so badly shown in
> > filemanagers/-dialogs * no/wrong thumbnails (for content.xml or
> > directory)
> > 
> > Anyone objecting to this? If not, I will finish/prepare a patch and
> > upload for review which adds support for uncompressed/directory store
> > formats only in developer-like builds. Such a build I assume if NDEBUG
> > is _not_ set. Or any better idea what the condition should be?
> > 
> > And while I twist around with that code I would like to change what
> > filename is used as id for a document in uncompressed files format,
> > which is currently "content.xml". But this id is also used in the window
> > title and in the recent documents list so it makes life not easy if
> > there is multiple times just "content.xml". I would change the code to
> > use the name of the base dir instead.
> 
> LibreOffice support fodt (the whole contents in one xml file) and a
> standardized way to store ODF in a flat XML file. Using that format
> instead of the current uncompressed format seems like a good compromise
> which will still allow people to store the files in a version control
> system nicely.

Didn't you say that there are features in odt that are not supported by fodt? 
I forgot the details but I think it would be good to have the info before we 
make the decision.
 
> Cheers,
> Jos
> 
> 
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