[scribus-dev] Research study on Scribus

Craig Bradney cbradney at zip.com.au
Mon Apr 12 06:50:05 CEST 2010


On 4/11/10 5:25 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 04/09/2010 01:02 AM, freedom forme wrote:
>> Hello
>> I went through Scribus it is very much interesting .The concept of
>> open XML based file format is fascinated me.So I want to learn more
>> about Open XML file format.I want to develop a small application and
>> I want to integrate .sla file format to it .As I do not have any idea
>> about XML file formats can any give me suggestions to do this thing
>> OR can any one tell me how to approach to this problem.
> I think you would have to say that the .sla format is XML-like. At
> least the last time I checked, it does show itself to be well-formed
> XML, and can be parsed, but generally it doesn't show such a clear
> layout as you may see with many other XML files. I'm not sure if you
> rearranged the files in something like a tree format that Scribus
> would still understand them.
>
> There are some pages on the Scribus sites that explain (to some
> degree) the format. If you want to understand it, I'm afraid it's
> mostly going to be a matter of going through the files to try to
> understand for yourself what does what. If you have no understanding
> of XML at all, then you have your work cut out for you.
>
> Having said all this, you should be able to see that the files are
> arranged in sections. You might look at the file of an empty document
> just to see something like the bare minimum (or at least the default
> minimum) of content.
>

Hi Greg

This sounds like the guys who visit #scribus attempting to get
information about how to write a copy of scribus but do not wish to
cooperate and do not do their research, probably best to just ignore
this person unless they come up with something useful.

Craig
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