Re: Request: Test suite for EFS.

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel gnu org>]

>   Is that the end of the XML format ? 
> How are you gonna reuse your filesystem embedded in a file 10 years from
> now when you will look at your precious data on a CDROM but without a running
> copy of Gnumeric ?
> 
> Daniel, concerned ...

It is definetly an option.

First of all, some features are very hard to implement with ad-hoc XML
features.  For example, it is not easy to write an application that
scans documents and searches for "Daniel Veillard" as their author.

With the way Structured Storage works in OLE2, you know that the
author is always going to be in "summary/author" inside the structured
storage file: there is no need to load the entire file, you just open
the directory, and do the lookups for summary/author inside the file
system, no need to parse the entire thing into memory and find out
whether the author is Daniel or not.

Inside this structured storage file, the current XML file will be
contained as well as any other resources like images, links and
embedded objects.

Unless someone convinces me that this is not a good idea, Structured
Storage makes a lot of sense.

And of course, we could support a "pure" XML mode for those that do
not want to use the search facilities.

miguel.