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Nena,

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Originally posted by heyitsme
What the heck is the new XML format storing?

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It needs to store all the tags and CSS that provide the formatting and layout details.

Maybe Plus! should allow log compression? Text-based formats can be compressed a stupid amount sometimes.

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Originally posted by RaceProUK
Nena,

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Originally posted by heyitsme
What the heck is the new XML format storing?

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It needs to store all the tags and CSS that provide the formatting and layout details.

Maybe Plus! should allow log compression? Text-based formats can be compressed a stupid amount sometimes.

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Sorry, that makes no sense as the entire point of XSL stylesheets is to cut down on the amount of stylistic HTML needed to design each page. It shouldn't be anymore than some simple bold, italic tags. The rest is the XSL stylesheet as it can customize any HTML element, even without assigning divider names and ids. Something else must be going on like every emoticon used being stored locally in each messenger log folder instead of referencing a central location for them or the person using excessive file transfers of larger images or music files even.

XSL wasn't designed to reduce the amount of HTML style code at all: that's CSS's job. XSL is designed to transform and style any type of XML document, whether (X)HTML or not. In Plus!, an XSL stylesheet is used is to transform some XML data into an HTML page with an embedded CSS stylesheet ready for display in the WebBroswer control the Chat Log Viewer uses.

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Originally posted by heyitsme
Something else must be going on like every emoticon used being stored locally in each messenger log folder instead of referencing a central location for them or the person using excessive file transfers of larger images or music files even.

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Yes, each image is stored per log. And that is also quite logical as there can not be some central database as each image in a chat (even if it is for the same shortcut) can be different than the previous chat.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by heyitsme
Something else must be going on like every emoticon used being stored locally in each messenger log folder instead of referencing a central location for them or the person using excessive file transfers of larger images or music files even.

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Yes, each image is stored per log. And that is also quite logical as there can not be some central database as each image in a chat (even if it is for the same shortcut) can be different than the previous chat.

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Each image should be saved as its md5 hash for example.

That way whenever the same image is used, it'll only create it once. And the md5 hash of the image will ensure ones of the same name but different image wont overwrite each other.

Save it as "23902fb0b32.gif" for example.

I'd really hate to see this die.
I would like to see a converter to the new XML format.

There should also be a search engine for the chat logs.

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Originally posted by heyitsme
There should also be a search engine for the chat logs.

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Since most desktop search programs can search for HTML files, just get a desktop search program and get it to index your logs. They can also index text files for people who had the old Messenger Plus! for a long time.