[Scribus] queries about the .sla/.xml connection

[Craig Bradney]

Hi Greg

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 02:23, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> I continue to try to understand something about why certain decisions 
> were made in regard to .sla files.
> 
> A recurrent question is why the text in a text frame is an attribute 
> rather than character data.  I seems all the examples of xml I can find 
> never do it this way. It might explain the parsing problem that Perl 
> has, but perhaps also the ongoing struggle with editing frames with or 
> without Story Editor.

Thats the way it is.... 
Thats what Franz decided way back when....
I do not know a reason, I have never asked.

> And related -- why use Ctrl-E for carriage return? This is a major 
> problem with XML::Parser in Perl.  I suppose I can write a perl program 
> to switch this, then switch it back (I know, I know, why use perl at 
> all...but processing text files is really the bread and butter of what 
> perl can do so well). On the other hand, why not create an xml tag for 
> line break or carriage return?

This may change... and probably will do so after 1.2 is released when we
start to consider the new file format.

All of these questions will not have answers other than to say "thats
the way it is" until the work on the new file format is begun, which I
have stated is after 1.2 is released when we begin the work on 1.3cvs.
When that times comes there will be plenty of time for people to submit
ideas, samples etc that we can use to improve the current format/write
the new one.

regards
Craig
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