[libreoffice-users] Re: use of flat xml formats

Le 27/09/2011 14:41, e-letter a écrit :

Hi,

> Is there a logical reason why xslt filters need to be selected
> manually for installation? Flat xml file formats are a very good
> feature, especially for document version control. Why is flat xml not
> the default file format for LO?

No idea, because in the Mac version of LibO they are included by 
default, but then so is everything else, so that probably isn't much of 
an argument !!

From memory, in OpenOffice.org the FlatXML filters were originally 
designed to be able to export the former binary filter format files from 
StarOffice to be able to be read on PDAs of the time (Pocket Excel, 
Pocket Word, etc). They were thus an optional install on Windows. I 
guess that just kind of stuck as development of more widespread XML 
usage (and the development of ODF) progressed.


Alex


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