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How do we count? - September 26, 2012

From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:50:00 -0000

Hi all, What about an already existing ODF tool which changes a document's content, but has no clue about change tracking? If I want to implement a quite simple ODF tool which just removes empty paragraphs I need an complicated implementation when I want to keep the CT information valid. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Oliver-Rainer Wittmann -- Advisory Software Engineer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM Deutschland Beim Strohhause 17 20097 Hamburg Phone: +49-40-6389-1415 E-Mail: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH / Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: Martina Koederitz Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen / Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 From: "Andreas J. Guelzow" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Date: 21.09.2012 23:52 Subject: RE: [office-collab] How do we count? - September 26, 2012 Sent by: <[email protected]> On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 15:43 -0600, John Haug wrote: > So each time an arbitrary change is rejected or the document content > is altered (change-tracked or not), the numerical references of > some/all the change tracking markup may be invalidated and must be > recalculated by the application, right? > > That seems like a significant and unavoidable burden. I was a > hardware guy in school, not a software/algorithms guy, but that has to > be unpleasant big-O behavior! Or am I (hopefully!) wrong in my > understanding? I can't imagine that any application would likely work directly on the xml representation. I would envision that the information is parsed when the file is opened and converted into the applications own data structures. Only when the file is saved again do the numerical references need to be created (or adjusted if an application decided to keep them.) Andreas -- Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD, FTICA Concordia University College of Alberta [attachment "signature.asc" deleted by Oliver-Rainer Wittmann/Germany/IBM]