On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:37 -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > OK, it's a balancing act. Gnumeric files are nice and slim > > compared to most spreadsheets -- but I think they would remain > > comparatively slim even with formula-results added (given the > > economical XML structure and gzip compression). > > Which percentage of gnumeric users do you think would even > consider using gretl or some other program that parses the xml > and expects to find the values in addition to the real data?
If you confine the question to gretl and this year, the answer is obviously "a minuscule percentage". But if you enlarge the question to XML-aware free-software applications over a timescale of, say, the next decade, I'm not so sure of the answer. The implication of your point of view seems to be: gnumeric XML is strictly a private format -- if you're a third party and want to make use of files saved in this format, you're SOL. I can live with that, but I'm disappointed. Even the wretched XLS binary format enables third parties to read formula results if they're willing to grub among the saved bytes. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
