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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
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