[odf-discuss] ODF Viewer Update: Beta 1 released.

marbux marbux at gmail.com
Sat Dec 16 14:46:30 EST 2006


On 12/16/06, Alex Hudson <alex at stratagia.co.uk> wrote:
> I think it's actually more complex than just allowing people to edit tags.
>
 the user can type in stuff which doesn't
> validate as ODF or, worse, isn't well-formed XML. At that point, your
> round-trip would break down and you'd have to try to get the user to fix
> the XML somehow (which is a notoriously difficult procedure - you can't
> usually just look at an XML document and tell the user what's wrong with
> it in a sensible manner, you need to do a comparison to the last
> known-good version).

Would this still be true if the markup was tokenized, as is done in WordPerfect?

Best regards,

Marbux



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