[Doc-SIG] what about OpenDocument?

[Laura Creighton]

Yes, this is precisely what many of us dislike.  When we are working
on a project, and somebody changes the docs, we want a nice readable
svn checkin with the diffs, something that we can glance at any say
'yes that's correct' or 'oops, that's wrong'.  When instead you get
'binary file, no diffs available' your documentation starts living in
a world of its own, a world that you have to visit periodically and do
work to keep up with.

Laura

In a message of Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:19:34 +1100, Christopher Armstrong writes:
>On 12/31/05, Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com> wrote:
>> So it is a binary file format?  If so, that will be a problem.  Anythin
>g
>> that produces output you cannot run through unix tools such as grep, an
>d
>> anything that you cannot edit in your favourite text editor will be a
>> problem.
>
>Well, all it is is a zip file that contains some XML files and some
>subdirectories. content.xml is fairly easy to extract from the zip,
>munge, and put back.
>
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