Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 23:51, Dave Thayer wrote:
> 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):
Hey, yeah, you're right. When I saw the text, I figured it was a
hybrid.
> dave@rodan:/tmp$ unzip -v test.sxc
[snip]
>
> Looking at the compression ratios it's easy to see why they chose zip
> format over straight xml.
AbiWord documents aren't huge (or even big), and they are regular,
old text xml files.
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