You can not select more than 25 topics
Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
125 lines
3.5 KiB
125 lines
3.5 KiB
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
|
|
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
|
|
<!-- $Id: FileFormats.html 428241 2005-06-23 14:07:40Z pino $ -->
|
|
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
|
|
<head>
|
|
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
|
|
<title>FileFormats.html</title>
|
|
<style type="text/css">
|
|
BODY
|
|
{
|
|
background-color: #FFFFFF
|
|
}
|
|
DT
|
|
{
|
|
font-weight:bold;
|
|
}
|
|
SPAN.bold
|
|
{
|
|
font-weight: bold;
|
|
}
|
|
/* The colors are PROVISORY */
|
|
SPAN.tags
|
|
{
|
|
color:red;
|
|
}
|
|
SPAN.doctype
|
|
{
|
|
color:green;
|
|
}
|
|
SPAN.attribute
|
|
{
|
|
color:blue;
|
|
}
|
|
</style>
|
|
</head>
|
|
<body>
|
|
<h1>1 Foreword</h1>
|
|
<p>AbiWord's file format has evolved with the time. The older file formats are
|
|
XML-like, the newer ones are in XML.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The names given for each file format are <span class="bold">not</span>
|
|
official, it is just how I have named them.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>They might be also other variations of the file format than those described below.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The CVS dates are the dates when I have tested and found out things. So any
|
|
feature described must have appeared earlier. The dates are in format year-month-day.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h1>2 AbiWord's File Formats</h1>
|
|
|
|
<p>Here are a few versions (from oldest to newest):</p>
|
|
|
|
<dt>awml</dt>
|
|
<dd>
|
|
The "awml" format starts with a tag <span class="tags"><awml></span>
|
|
and has no other header before. Some tags have different names than in later
|
|
versions.
|
|
</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt> Anonymous</dt>
|
|
<dd>
|
|
The "anonymous" format is the same but the tag
|
|
<span class="tags"><awml></span> is now named
|
|
<span class="tags"><abiword></span>. Some of these files have upper case
|
|
tag and attribute names.
|
|
</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt>Numbered</dt>
|
|
<dd>
|
|
The "numbered" version has a special header embeded in XML comments and the
|
|
tag <span class="tags"><abiword></span> has now a
|
|
<span class="attribute">version</span> attribute with a version number as
|
|
parameter.
|
|
</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt>Unnumbered</dt>
|
|
<dd>
|
|
The "unnumbered" version has the version number of the
|
|
<span class="attribute">version</span> attribute with the value "unnumbered".
|
|
</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt>XML</dt>
|
|
<dd>
|
|
The "xml" version has a XML declaration (
|
|
<span class="tags"><?xml</span> ) and but has still the special header after
|
|
the XML declaration. Note: the encoding (e.g. UTF-8) is not always given.
|
|
</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt>File Format 1.0</dt>
|
|
<dd>
|
|
The "fileformat 1.0" version: the <span class="tags"><abiword></span>
|
|
tag has an attribute <span class="attribute">fileformat</span> (set to 1.0)
|
|
</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt>Wrong Doc Type</dt>
|
|
<dd>
|
|
The "wrong doctype": a DOCTYPE was added with a wrong public type of:
|
|
<span class="doctype">"-//W3C//DTD ABW 1.0 Strict//EN"</span>.
|
|
(Wrong is the W3C part! W3C has nothing to do with AbiWord. AbiWord Bug #1882)
|
|
</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt>Correct Doc Type</dt>
|
|
<dd>
|
|
The "correct doctype": (AbiWord CVS 2001-08-21) with a DOCTYPE of:
|
|
<span class="doctype"><!DOCTYPE abw PUBLIC
|
|
"-//ABISOURCE//DTD ABW 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.abisource.com/awml.dtd">
|
|
</span>
|
|
</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt>New Doc Type / Wrong Name Space Definition</dt>
|
|
<dd>
|
|
The "new doctype": (AbiWord CVS 2002-02-??) with a DOCTYPE of:
|
|
<span class="doctype"><!DOCTYPE abiword PUBLIC
|
|
"-//ABISOURCE//DTD AWML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.abisource.com/awml.dtd">
|
|
</span>
|
|
The name space definition is wrong because it uses <span class="attribute">xmlns:awml</span>.
|
|
However it is the default name space of the file so it should be defined by
|
|
<span class="attribute">xmlns</span>. The <span class="tags"><abiword></span>
|
|
tag has new attributes: <span class="attribute">version</span> and
|
|
<span class="attribute">styles</span>.
|
|
</dd>
|
|
|
|
</body>
|
|
</html>
|