On 26 Jun 2003 09:19:47 +0100 PFJ <paulf.johnson at ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, > > > > > E.g. text is being written as argument to a tag., e.g. > > > > > > > > <ITEXT CAB="0" CCOLOR="Black" CSIZE="8" CH="some text" > > > > CSHADE="100" CSTYLE="0" CFONT="Nimbus Roman No9 L Medium" > > > > CEXTRA="2"/> > > > > > > > > In the XML world it would be more appropriate to make it > > > > this way: > > > > > > > > <texttag argument="value">some text</texttag> > > > > > > > > There also are no xml declaration and no DTD. The last point > > > > really makes me frustrated. > > > > > > Yes, that is a common critique. > > > > And where can I read the common answer? :-) > > discuss at openoffice.org may be a good start. Paul, are you suggesting me to discuss Scribus's format in OOo's list? :) > As for getting OOo doc files into Scribus, it shouldn't really be > a problem. I had a chat with the OOo lads at the NIA bash on > Tuesday night who became excited (to say the least) over the > descriptions of Scribus - they did know what it was, but hadn't > looked at it. As I had my laptop with me, they were able to see > that the XML Scribus generates and that of OOo docs should really > not be too hard to do. With any luck, the 1.1 release will have it > in - lots has to be done before that... Yes, writing an XSL for XSLT processing from <tag>text</tag> to <newtag text="text"/> will be work for real men :) > Another fun thing which happened was that I have had an email from > someone at Quark who wanted to know how the Quark importer was > going to work given it was closed (I think they wanted an > admission of reverse engineering). While they were not exactly > over the the moon with my reply, they didn't put up a bar on the > development, but did request that the plugin is kept closed > source. After about 5 seconds of thought though, the one word > which cross my mind was naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :-) :-))))))) I think, there are basically 5 formats whose support in Scribus would be highkly aappreciated in future: OpenOffice.org, RTF, Quark, InDesign and PageMaker. Last three also seem to provide support for XML at the moment. -- Alexandre Prokoudine ALT Linux Documentation Team JabberID: avp at altlinux.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 481 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20030630/352326e3/attachment.pgp
