"Uncompressed XML Files" format variants

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Monday 12 November 2012 Nov, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > The xml id regeneration does spoil the diffs. But I think that Calligra
> > formats the XML nicely enough that a line based VCS is still usable. And I
> > also don't think that it will make the diffs unreadable and hide the real
> > content changes.
> 
> In the long run we need to make sure the xml ids are consistent anyway (like 
> Jos said), so that was just an argument for now.
> Though looking at diffs on the text-file level is not what we should optimize 
> for, or? Still nice to have, I agree, if only for as-small-diffs-as-possible.

Actually, regenerating the xml-id's on saving was a conscious decision back then... One that has cost us a lot of effort in implementation work, actually. I don't totally remember the arguments for regeneration, just that I have spent hours and hours when working on RDF to make it work.

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