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Subject: Re: [office] Re: [office-comment] Different Versions in ODF
Hi David, David Faure wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 02:27, Josh Rickmar wrote: >> In newer versions of ODF, can you add the option of saving multiple >> versions of the same file in the same file, so ODF users can roll-back >> to any saved version without losing a separate file? I think this would >> be handy, since I wouldn't have to always be using the "Save As" button >> to make another separate file for all my different versions. I could >> instead just save the separate versions in the same file name, and then >> could decide which to open when I open the file. > > This is a good point. Although OpenOffice.org has this feature, it is not part > of the standard. The metadata is saved in another file, VersionList.xml: > > <VL:version-list xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:VL="http://openoffice.org/2001/versions-list"> > <VL:version-entry VL:title="Version1" VL:comment="david" VL:creator="" dc:date-time="2006-12-06T15:46:39"/> > </VL:version-list> > > and the actual saved document is saved as Versions/Version1 (as a full zip archive inside the zip archive). > Interesting approach... I'm not sure why the xml files of version1 are not just stored inside Versions/Version1/ > instead of the zip-inside-zip approach. Comments anyone? > You are right that this OOo feature is not contained in ODF 1.1, but we may of course add it as part of the package definition for ODF 1.2. A zip within zip is used because this allows extracting the versioned document without repackaging it. Repackaging the document would require to rebuild a manifest.xml. Best regards Michael
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