Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:59:29AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 22:12, Dave Thayer wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 05:26:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 21:50, dave mallery wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > i havent seen anyone mention XML. both star and open office now use it.
> > > > it is open by default.
> > >
> > > AbiWord uses XML, and all the data is "encoded" in text, whereas
> > > OO/SO stores it's data in binary format.
> >
> > And OO/SO's binary file is a zip archive containing -- you guessed it -- xml
> > files.
>
> How do you extract the zip portion out?
>
Unzip will do the trick. Heres what's inside an OO spreadsheet (I
haven't been doing much wordprocessing on this machine):
dave@rodan:/tmp$ unzip -v test.sxc
Archive: test.sxc
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Name
-------- ------ ------- ----- ---- ---- ------ ----
468042 Defl:N 20792 96% 03-16-02 22:46 6de10ad4 content.xml
27205 Defl:N 2604 90% 03-16-02 22:46 890e8965 styles.xml
1137 Stored 1137 0% 03-16-02 22:46 8616e2a7 meta.xml
9108 Defl:N 1406 85% 03-16-02 22:46 a5f1a08e settings.xml
750 Defl:N 252 66% 03-16-02 22:46 5313cb53 META-INF/manifest.xml
-------- ------- --- -------
506242 26191 95% 5 files
Looking at the compression ratios it's easy to see why they chose zip
format over straight xml.
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