[Pipet Devel] Tools for parsing XML with Python

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Hmmm.  So this is all Bonobo?  Does Gnome-DB make use of Bonobo?  *sigh* you can
see why we're using Gnome as the foundation for Loci :-)

Jeff

Svanberg Liss wrote:
> 
> > What's a bonobo compound document (i.e., a guppi figure in a gnumeric
> > spreadsheet) look like anyway? Does anyone know?
> 
> A compund document is usually a GNOME::Storage where each compund part is a
> GNOME::Stream and can be found inside the storage.
> What a GNOME::Storage really are when it's stored on disk ( if it's even
> possible to store it on disk ) is application dependent. I should guess that
> it typically will be a directory.
> 
> To store a compund document requires that each component has declared an
> interface that is called GNOME::Persist<something>.
> These interfaces contains methods that are able to store a component's data
> in a GNOME::Storage ( among other things ).
> So, when you wan't to store a compund document, you typically create ( or
> finds ) a GNOME::Storage, and then you tell the different components of the
> document to store themselves into your storage.
> 
> Since there exists GNOME::Persist<blah> interfaces that are designed to
> store data directly on disk, or into a stream, things might be different in
> reality. A compund document *may* as an example be a number of files
> shattered around the net, or it might be one single (probably binary) file.
> 
> // Liss
> 
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