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Subject: Re: [office-comment] Public Comment
David, you are right. Since compression is one of the reasons why the OASIS Open Office format makes use of packages. This should be mentioned in the specification. I've changed the paragraph in questions as follows: "As XML has no native support for binary objects such as images, [OLE] objects, or other media types, and because uncompressed XML files can get very large, Open Office uses a package file to store the XML content of a document together with its associated binary data, and to optionally compress the XML content." Thank you very much for this suggestion. Best regards Michael Brauer OASIS Open Office TC chair comment-form@oasis-open.org wrote: > Comment from: dwheeler@dwheeler.com > > Section 16.1 - rationale for zip format. > > After "As XML has no native support for binary objects" I would add "and uncompressed XML can be lengthy," > and then change: > "Open Office uses a package file to store the XML content" to > "Open Office uses a package file to store the compressed XML content" > > One of the primary advantages of ZIP is the much smaller files it produces than when using XML directly. This is particularly important when this format is used for archival purposes; if you store billions of documents, having a compression scheme can really help! That advantage should be mentioned in the document itself. > > -- Michael Brauer Phone: +49 40 23646 500 Technical Architect Software Engineering Fax: +49 40 23646 550 StarOffice Development Sun Microsystems GmbH Sachsenfeld 4 D-20097 Hamburg, Germany e-mail: michael.brauer@sun.com
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