Re: [office-comment] Public Comment

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

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.
> 
> 


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