On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:59:29AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 22:12, Dave Thayer wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 05:26:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 21:50, dave mallery wrote: > > [...] > > > > i havent seen anyone mention XML. both star and open office now use it. > > > > it is open by default. > > > > > > AbiWord uses XML, and all the data is "encoded" in text, whereas > > > OO/SO stores it's data in binary format. > > > > And OO/SO's binary file is a zip archive containing -- you guessed it -- xml > > files. > > How do you extract the zip portion out? >
Unzip will do the trick. Heres what's inside an OO spreadsheet (I haven't been doing much wordprocessing on this machine): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ unzip -v test.sxc Archive: test.sxc Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Name -------- ------ ------- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- 468042 Defl:N 20792 96% 03-16-02 22:46 6de10ad4 content.xml 27205 Defl:N 2604 90% 03-16-02 22:46 890e8965 styles.xml 1137 Stored 1137 0% 03-16-02 22:46 8616e2a7 meta.xml 9108 Defl:N 1406 85% 03-16-02 22:46 a5f1a08e settings.xml 750 Defl:N 252 66% 03-16-02 22:46 5313cb53 META-INF/manifest.xml -------- ------- --- ------- 506242 26191 95% 5 files Looking at the compression ratios it's easy to see why they chose zip format over straight xml. dt -- Dave Thayer | If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about Denver, Colorado USA | cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the time, for no good reason. - Jack Handey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]