... keep in mind, this is text. I just tested out one of these files (the ziped up style I was recommending in the next thread), and *with* an embedded image...
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Brass Tilde
brasstilde@...
Oct 4, 2005 3:16 pm
... While I completely agree that the criticism is harsh (though I would say more than a little, and unjustified to boot), I'm not sure I agree with ...
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Brass Tilde
brasstilde@...
Oct 4, 2005 3:25 pm
... Why would the PCGen character data, i.e. the current PCG file, or the previous "section 1", not be "content"? ... useful, ... mimetype does what exactly?...
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Andrew Wilson
ytitendi
Oct 4, 2005 7:03 pm
... I think lst to XML is an abysmal idea. XML is not a nice format for people to work in, it's fine for computer to computer exchange. It's rubbish if...
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Andrew Wilson
ytitendi
Oct 4, 2005 7:03 pm
... Sounds good to me. ... I think we should. andrew -- Pisces: (Feb. 19 - March 20) There is nothing in your world more satisfying than a good taco and a can...
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Brass Tilde
brasstilde@...
Oct 4, 2005 7:20 pm
... To a certain extent, I agree, but with a properly configured schema, and a schema aware editor and parser, the results could be much more easily validated...
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Devon Jones
hunterd_us
Oct 4, 2005 7:36 pm
... Consider that it's even harder now, cause pcgen supports adding new tokens via plugin. No real good way to support that via xml..... Devon...
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Devon Jones
hunterd_us
Oct 4, 2005 9:22 pm
... technically yes, but the structure of the current.xml file declared as a part of opendocument won't work for us. It won't fill the need. ... mimetype...
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Devon Jones
hunterd_us
Oct 4, 2005 9:23 pm
... Fair point :) Devon...
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Fred Drake
pythondocs
Oct 5, 2005 1:44 am
... We're definately looking at the issues of packaging format vs. content format here. Welcome to a world of tedium. :-) It is content. It's not a...
1169
gamer_dude@...
awb_gaming1
Oct 5, 2005 1:44 am
... Debuging is nice and I agree that a data format which lets you debug will be helpful. I guessing that there is an idea that I'm just not catching. In my...
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Devon Jones
hunterd_us
Oct 5, 2005 7:10 am
... See, and I don't necessarily expect it to be quite that - I'm expecting it to be more of a file that lets the program log, non-destructively, so that the...
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Brass Tilde
brasstilde@...
Oct 5, 2005 11:04 am
... the ... Yeah, I'd forgotten about that. Again however, properly constructed schemas could be merged into one "master" schema. A schema aware editor that...
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Brass Tilde
brasstilde@...
Oct 5, 2005 11:49 am
... OK, so it's the mime-type for the package itself, with the mime-types for the files within the package declared within those files, right? Brad...
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Brass Tilde
brasstilde@...
Oct 5, 2005 12:10 pm
... the ... Tell me about it. ... I have to ask why adherence to the OpenDocument format is so important. I'm not saying it isn't, just asking why it is. What...
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Devon Jones
hunterd_us
Oct 5, 2005 5:18 pm
... well, a number of reasons: 1) It'll be a lot easier for people to write code against it, because vast chunks of our file format have a full spec as well as...
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Brass Tilde
brasstilde@...
Oct 5, 2005 5:33 pm
... important. ... I can see this one, though I would argue that it's for the general case only, not the PCGen specific case. Perhaps that's what you meant. ...
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Devon Jones
hunterd_us
Oct 5, 2005 6:25 pm
... that's correct, they still need to know how to process a pcgen xml document that is stored internally ... It means that when we implement this, we are...
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Brass Tilde
brasstilde@...
Oct 5, 2005 6:43 pm
... OK, I think I can understand that. ... character ... formatting ... By that criteria, wouldn't the character data itself, i.e. what is now in "base.xml";,...
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Devon Jones
hunterd_us
Oct 5, 2005 6:56 pm
... The problem is that the structure of content.xml just simply put doesn't maintain enough information for use to use that as a data format to re-create the...
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Gargola
alograg
Oct 5, 2005 6:59 pm
Analizando todos sus comentarios, esto es lo que he decidido hacer: Ayudare trabajando en un diseño completo de XML para proponerlo como estándar para...
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Eric Jarman
oracleofbargth
Oct 5, 2005 6:59 pm
... <snip> ... <snip> ... I'd like to suggest the following: content.xml -- The outputsheet in OpenDocument format. meta.xml -- timestamp, etc. settings.xml --...
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Brass Tilde
brasstilde@...
Oct 5, 2005 7:19 pm
... "content" ... doesn't ... Does it not have an application specific element or set of elements that can be used? If not, that sounds awfully restrictive...
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Devon Jones
hunterd_us
Oct 5, 2005 7:41 pm
... Well, keep in mind "OpenDocument" doesn't mean it's intended to be a universal file format, it means it's a file format, with an open specification that...
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Devon Jones
hunterd_us
Oct 5, 2005 7:44 pm
Heres an example from content.xml: <text:h text:style-name="Heading_2">This is a title</text:h> <text:p text:style-name="Text_body"/> <text:p...
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Devon Jones
hunterd_us
Oct 5, 2005 7:47 pm
here's a spreadsheet content.xml: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><office:document-content ...
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Devon Jones
hunterd_us
Oct 5, 2005 9:39 pm
... content.xml doesn't have any formatting information, so we would need to have content.xml & style.xml. One cool thing about this is that making an output...
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Devon Jones
hunterd_us
Oct 5, 2005 9:40 pm
... Excellent, thanks ! Devon...
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Fred Drake
pythondocs
Oct 6, 2005 3:04 am
... Right. ... MIME types for the contained files are given in META-INF/manifest.xml. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "Society attacks...
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andargor
Oct 6, 2005 4:04 am
... That's great. I'm wondering, does the OpenDocument format include language support? I've been toying with RDF, which is totally irrelevant here, but the...
