On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:45:58 +0100 José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 03 September 2007 13:01:21 Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > > > > Now, think at all of this in a future in which LyX might embrace > > XML-based representation of documents (I've read smth. like > > that on the list). The simple text-based > > diffing tools would produce an output that is harder and harder > > to read, wouldn't they ? > > Then why not the right tools to the right job: > http://www.logilab.org/projects/xmldiff/ > > > Last, think at what happens if you enable compression of .lyx files > > (it is already possible within LyX, isn't it ?). > > zcat -f > will work not matter if the file is compressed or not. > > > T. That reminds me, what state is LyX XML in at the moment? My feeling is that even if it is incomplete, as long as it does both read and write, it should go in. Already now we have a partial XML format, i.e., for tables. - Martin
