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[Thorsten Behrens]

Patrick Durusau wrote: > What is required is that when I serialize the in memory > representation (my meaning of data model), is that it meet all the > requirements of the ODF format. > > That is we specify a serialization of changes against that common > serialization so that when we exchange that representation, > applications reach a common state of the document with regard to > changes. What data model the applications are following isn't > relevant at that point. > > Yes? > Yes. But I think this is achievable with both your proposals - if there's a well-defined bijective mapping between components and xml, any import and export code can apply this mapping on the fly. Cheers, -- Thorsten Behrens SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg; GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Attachment: pgpsaHxTPNGil.pgp Description: PGP signature