Documentation??
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| theBeez May 23, 2010 5:11 AM EDT |
I'll be supporting .fods (the flat xml spreadsheet version) in my next release of the 4tH compiler. However, it is not that easy to find any documentation or tutorial on it. As a matter of fact, I kind of re-engineered it by dumping a file on disk and removing lines until I got something that was still readable. I am by no means a fan of MS, but it was quite easy to find an article on their Excel XML format (Wikipedia). If people want more support for their stuff, DOCUMENT IT! Not just a dump of the entire standard, but also a tiny tutorial, starting with a minimal version and then expand it. Another irritation: .fods is for some obscure reason not supported on Windows, so I had to Google for the solution, which I found in some obscure forum entry. Then it works flawlessly, WT*?? Bottom line: we developers cannot support your formats if you don't make them accessible for us. |
| Sander_Marechal May 23, 2010 5:48 AM EDT |
I'm curious. Why fods instead of regular ods? Or are you already supporting regular ods? Also, I must say that I have read the complete ODF spec several times. It's not hard to read nand at 600 pages quite managable. Unlike the OOXML spec. I've built ODF-XSLT from reading the spec. |
| theBeez May 24, 2010 6:06 AM EDT |
Easy, I don't have to do the whole ZIP stuff or multiple files in order to get a readable file. Flat ASCII. That's why I love LaTeX, Postscript or LyX. |
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