[LINK] XML Saves the World?

[Carl Makin]

Hi Richard,

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 19:10, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:

> Now the not-nice: why on earth is it necessary to generate seven files 
> for one WP document?

At http://xml.openoffice.org/package.html it says;

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Users have traditionally required efficient operation, especially for
basic functionality such as loading or saving of documents. It is our
experience that independent loading (or saving) of subdocuments is the
key to efficient handling of large documents.
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The page above explains exactly why they chose that particular file
format.


Carl.