From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:02:49 +0900 Message-ID: <877hekhzue.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87hbduhno4.fsf@gnu.org> <87sjxa2xao.fsf@member.fsf.org> <878vz1dsox.fsf@member.fsf.org> <877hekpdvz.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294193279 32250 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2011 02:07:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 02:07:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monkey@sandpframing.com, jasonr@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 03:07:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaIn4-0005ds-42 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:07:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54212 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaIn2-0004f6-9h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:07:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33722 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaImx-0004ep-Tn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:07:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaImw-0007OP-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:07:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:50526) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaImw-0007OL-HY; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:07:46 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 675683FA056E; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 11:07:45 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D6B7611EE96; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 11:02:49 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <877hekpdvz.fsf@member.fsf.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134270 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > But I think that conversion from and to ODF is not the right approach to > support ODF editing in Emacs. Imagine a colleague sends you an ODF file > she created using LibreOffice, you convert it to something Emacs can > handle, Uh, just teach jka-compr or crypt++ that it's a zipfile, and what you'll see in the buffer is XML, no? Since when is Emacs handicapped w.r.t. XML? It might be dog-slow to handle to full DTD, but that's another story. There are any number of ways to dodge that bullet.