On Wednesday 06 December 2006 16:31, Michael Brauer wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> David Faure wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 02:27, Josh Rickmar wrote:
> >> In newer versions of ODF, can you add the option of saving multiple
> >> versions of the same file in the same file, so ODF users can roll-back
> >> to any saved version without losing a separate file? I think this would
> >> be handy, since I wouldn't have to always be using the "Save As" button
> >> to make another separate file for all my different versions. I could
> >> instead just save the separate versions in the same file name, and then
> >> could decide which to open when I open the file.
> >
> > This is a good point. Although OpenOffice.org has this feature, it is not part
> > of the standard. The metadata is saved in another file, VersionList.xml:
> >
> >
> >
> > and the actual saved document is saved as Versions/Version1 (as a full zip archive inside the zip archive).
> > Interesting approach... I'm not sure why the xml files of version1 are not just stored inside Versions/Version1/
> > instead of the zip-inside-zip approach. Comments anyone?
> >
> You are right that this OOo feature is not contained in ODF 1.1, but we
> may of course add it as part of the package definition for ODF 1.2.
Sounds good.
> A zip within zip is used because this allows extracting the versioned
> document without repackaging it. Repackaging the document would require
> to rebuild a manifest.xml.
Hmm, OK.
--
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).