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On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:58:54AM -0500, Robin Cover wrote: > In the category of interesting XML applications: > Sun StarOffice XML formats as presented in the recently- > published "StarOffice XML File Format Technical Reference > Manual". Just a bit of feedback on it, I did play with it yesterday: - uses expat for parsing encapsulated in C++ - they don't do Dtd validation at loading (which makes sense due to the following points). - make serious use of namespaces, all elements are in a well defined namespace, there is multiple namespaces depending on the semantic of the elements/attributes - the generated XML looks clean though there is a bit of style extra information stored even if not used - their namespace support is done in a clean way (i.e. one can change the prefix string and the app still recognizes it :-) - they can import document with extra namespaces, but they can't save the unknow part (this generates a message at save time which seems to indicate that those information are kept in the internal document model which is a Good Thing, because it's probably easy to fix :-) - I just look at the SAX wrapper and though I don't enjoy C++, the code is somewhat clean and commented Globally, the impression is very positive so far ! Though the whole application isn't really lightweight :-) Thank you Sun for providing this great piece of free software ! Daniel, with his Gnome hat -- Daniel.Veillard@w... | W3C, INRIA Rhone-Alpes | Today's Bookmarks : Tel : +33 476 615 257 | 655, avenue de l'Europe | Linux XML libxml WWW Fax : +33 476 615 207 | 38330 Montbonnot FRANCE | Gnome rpm2html rpmfind http://www.w3.org/People/all#veillard%40w3.org | RPM badminton Kaffe
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