RE: Re: Keyword expansion with .docx files

On Sep 29, 2008, at 03:08, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>> I think the reason is that a .docx file is just a container (ZIP
>> file) containing XML files:
>> _rels
>> docprops
>> word
>> document.xml
>> ....
>> [Content_Types].xml
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> Exists there a way to support keyword expansion for .docx too?
>
> No. Unless the string "$Id:: $" appears in plaintext in the
> file, Subversion can't expand the keywords.

Why use .docx in the first place? Our (limited) tests showed that the
.xml versions of the files required less space in the repository (but
more space in the working copy). These are not compressed, and keyword
expansion should work fine.

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Received on 2008-09-29 18:56:22 CEST