On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Christopher Curtis wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:10:02 -0400 > From: Christopher Curtis <ccurtis@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Alan Horkan <horkana@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: new-xcf [Re: Gimp-developer Digest, Vol 10, > Issue 18] > > It is far better not to XML at all than to break XML. > > (incidentally this is similar to what has been suggested for Cinepaint). > even resemble XML. My "PREAMBLE" is valid XML. If they implement what > they have written, they don't even bother with things like closing tags > or putting parameters in quotes. A preamble, which is effectively full XML file, a boundry then more information which is effectively another file. Two files in one file, sounds like an ad-hoc container to me. > Which is what, at this point, I would prefer. > > >>OTOH, any > > > > Using Zip as a container is not "On The Other Hand", it does not prevent > > any of the things you are suggesting. > > Using a container at all is OTOH. > > > run 'head' on an OpenOffice document and you will see that the manifest is > > left uncompresses so that you can easily read it as text. > > OpenOffice documents are zipped; you can't head them. > > btw: META-INF/manifest.xml is at the end of my .sxi file. I made a terrible mistake of generalising from one instance. It is doable it but it was just coincidental in that it was done that way in the file I looked at. While I am apologising, I may as well repeat what I said offlist. I only used Winzip as an example, there are several programs which can recover parts of zip files, so repairing damaged zip files is possible (although I cant guess how difficult it is do it). I expect there must be command line tool for unix zip files, i just dont happen to know what it is yet. - Alan
