That is exactly what I was thinking. I could save the files as OpenDocument format, DocBook format, etc. in Android but in proprietary format in the database where no-one else is looking at except my server.
If I use a known standard, like ODT, I actually may need to study a lot of hours to figure out how to create ODT documents, but if I use my own format, I know what I'm doing. Also, I could use something simpler, like Markdown, CommonMark, Creole or AsciiDoc. My main idea is that my Android app only knows some formatting, like headings, italics and bold, so I can make the Android app easier to program and less CPU and memory heavy. On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 12:12:07 AM UTC+3, Kevin Powick wrote: > > Sounds like you're re-inventing a wheel that not only may be a lot of > work, but will result in a proprietary format that is incompatible with > everything. > > -- > Kevin Powick > > On Monday, 3 April 2017 02:33:31 UTC-5, Tomi Häsä wrote: >> >> Because Go has structs and it can read for example XML and JSON, I have >> been thinking of making my own document format and save those documents to >> a database. Users would save the documents in my Android app as XML >> locally, but the documents will be saved in a more concise format inside an >> online database server. Are there any known practices, like, is it better >> to save sections of the documents as cells (paragraphs, headings, authors, >> etc.) or should I just save one document in each cell? I have been thinking >> of using for example Unicode character BELL instead of <P> to mark >> paragraphs, and characters BELL+ETX for heading, and so on, or something >> similar where I won't be saving the same word (P, BR, H1, etc.) >> unnecessarily in case I want to make word searches from the database. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
