Re: First patches for the OpenDocument plugin

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:03:02PM +0200, Robert Staudinger wrote:
>
> On 7/4/05, Daniel d'Andrada Tenório de Carvalho
> <daniel.carvalho@indt.org.br> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I have reached the first milestone towards the OpendDocument plugin,
> > which is the following:
> >
> > 1 - Created a new plugin called OpenDocument:
> >
> > It is, in fact, the OpenWriter code without the .sxw part. The
> > classes have been renamed from *OpenWriter* to *OpenDocument*, some
> > (just a few) variables also renamed and I have stripped out every class
> > to a separate class.h/class.cpp pair.
> >
> >
> > 2 - Added full support for meta data import
> >
> > I have started out with this because it is the most simple part of
> > the code. :-) From now on I will tackle the style and content parts.
> > I saw that Abiword implements the entire Dublin Core meta data, but
> > the OpenDocument standard have only a subset of it (about half of those
> > dc:* metas) and adds meta data that have no counterpart on abiword. Most
> > of those were dealt without problems but some couldn't be done because
> > they have no content (stuff between start and end tags). They just
> > define a couple of properties inside their tags. Those are the following:
> >
> > * meta:template
> > * meta:auto-reload
> > * meta:hyperlink-behaviour
> > * meta:document-statistic
>
> [...]
>
> > What do you guys think about all that stuff?
>
> I read the metadata parser part of the patch (assuming that the
> .cpp/.h split part is ok). It looks good to me. Only the relation
> between "meta:initial-creator" and "dc:creator" is not clear to me.
> Can they both be set at a time with different values and what does
> that mean? You really need to convince me that both are needed in
> AbiWord, like you indicated in the patch.
>
> For stuff like that:
> + // Should have a PD_META_KEY_INITIAL_CREATOR macro for this one
> + getDocument()->setMetaDataProp("meta:initial-creator", m_charData);
> feel free to send a patch too. Also i'm not sure if we'd like to start
> using namespaces in the metadata section or if a simple "meta." prefix
> would do as well for properties that go beyond Dublin Core.
>
> Another thing we previously discussed was to store the entire settings
> stream in a metadata attribute so we could regenerate it on export
> (AbiWord doesn't excessively store its settings in the documents).
> Maybe you'd like to look into that?

Would it be possible to put the meta data parser into libgoffice or
libgsf so that it can be shared with gnumeric ? We already have an
MS OLE2 metadata import/exporter in there with what was intended to
be a generic metadata storage facility.
Received on Mon Jul 4 16:45:17 2005