OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

Re: [office] Question about file names in the package

  • 1.  Re: [office] Question about file names in the package

    Posted 04-19-2004 10:02
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    Subject: Re: [office] Question about file names in the package


    David
    
    David Faure wrote:
    > I noted that the specification doesn't specify the filenames to be used
    > within a package for the various subtypes (document-content, document-styles, document-meta etc.)
    > 
    > OO uses content.xml, styles.xml, meta.xml etc.
    > 
    > But does the fact that this isn't in the specification mean that applications reading
    > such files should simply read the manifest file, and from there parse any file whose
    > media-type is text/xml? I'm afraid this (very flexible) system would make the parsing
    > difficult (if the names aren't fixed, we'd have to first open each file and find out
    > which one contains which subtype, in order to parse e.g. styles before content).
    > 
    > What do you think about specifying explicitly that document-content should be 
    > saved as content.xml, document-styles should be saved as styles.xml, etc.?
    > 
    
    I think we should do so. In fact, I thought we did specify this already, 
    and are surprised, that it is missing in the spec.
    
    Michael
    
    


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