RE: [libreoffice-users] Flat xml format (.fodt) broek/unsupported on LibreOffice writer 3.4.3, Windows 7 ?

Concerning the OT about binary representations (namely, OLE embedding) in the 
flat XML:

There is no prohibition in ODF to storing the OLE-embedding in-line using 
<office:binary-data> to carry the embedded OLE in a base64Binary 
representation as text. In the ODF 1.2 specification, this opportunity is 
explicitly called out.

The storage inflation is a tolerable 0.33 x the binary size in bytes, although 
it also takes longer to parse through the stream (something the Zip avoids by 
having the OLE in a separate binary Zip part and by using compression wherever 
possible).

It is simply a matter of implementing it.  It would be interesting to make 
some test documents that exercise that provision and see what happens.

 - Dennis

PS: There is one challenge.  There is currently no way to carry a MIME type 
with the <draw:object-ole> or its <office:binary-data> child, so it may be 
tricky to know whose serialization of the OLE embedding is being used.  It 
appears that Sun/OOo have their own, and Microsoft uses a different one.  It 
may require that recognition of the embedding format be distinguishable by 
sniffing the binary data.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcello Romani [mailto:mromani@ottotecnica.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 04:41
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Flat xml format (.fodt) broek/unsupported on 
LibreOffice writer 3.4.3, Windows 7 ?

Il 11/10/2011 14:35, Marc Bannelier ha scritto:
> I would like to use the .fodt format in LibreOffice with SVN for a
> documentation system.
> After a fresh installation, the format doesn't appear in the "Save as.."
> box in version 3.4.3 on Windows 7.
> Is it temporarely broken ? Do I need an extension ?
> I've seen that the filter was rewritten in C++, I suppose it will be
> maintained ?
>
> Marc B

[slightly OT]
Thanks for mentioning this format. I always thought it would have been
nice to have svn-versionable documents...

Pity it has problems with images embedded as OLE objects, but that'd be
a different thread (and I'm talking about OOo here...)
[/OT]

-- 
Marcello Romani

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