Subject: Re: Questions about our XML grammar
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 12:41:40 CST
At 11:10 AM 1/10/01 -0500, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>FYI, Word styles are like our styles, not our "props" attributes. i.e. a
>style is a set of predefined attributes inherited by any element. MSWord
>uses PAP and CHP binary structures (actually, groups of diffs to these
>structures - GRPPLs of PAPXs and CHPXs) to store what we currently call
>"props".
Exactly. In the abstract, our concepts are very similar, but the .abw
markup is deliberately much simpler than Word's in this respect.
For both character and paragraph-level styles, here's a comparison of what
you see:
where what it looks like
----- ------------------
both UIs (en-US) Style: Normal
.abw format style="Normal"
.doc format (a bunch of binary gobbledygook)
Ditto for individual formatting properties:
where what it looks like
----- ------------------
both UIs (en-US) Font: Times New Roman, Size: 14pt
.abw format props="font-family:Times New Roman, font-size:14pt"
.doc format (more gobbledygook)
Any questions? :-)
Paul
PS: Once again, I should express my eternal gratitude to folks like Caolan,
Justin, and Dom, who've spent so much time groveling through the details of
that "binary gobbledygook" so that the rest of us never have to.
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