Re: [Gnumeric] Re: xml load problem.

["C. Scott Ananian" <cananian lesser-magoo lcs mit edu>]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 06:19:03PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> > Gnumeric refuses to load uncompressed XML input -- if you save a workbook
> > using gnumeric's default compressed-xml format and then uncompress it---
> > or you save it using the uncompressed-xml format---and then attempt to
> > load it, gnumeric will always try to import the file as plaintext.
> >
> > This seems to be obviously because the text-import wizard is getting a
> > crack at the file format before the default file opener.
>
> Odd, the meaning of 'default' is that it should have first crack at
> things.  HEAD or 1.0 ?

both.  it's easy to verify.  same as default, use gunzip to uncompress,
then try to load it in.

i think saving as "foo.xml" will save uncompressed, too; that shouldn't
load right, either, but I haven't checked this.
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