Symbian3/SDK/Source/GUID-B683496C-652E-5F48-924E-52D2FF3A78A7.dita
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--- a/Symbian3/SDK/Source/GUID-B683496C-652E-5F48-924E-52D2FF3A78A7.dita	Wed Mar 31 11:11:55 2010 +0100
+++ b/Symbian3/SDK/Source/GUID-B683496C-652E-5F48-924E-52D2FF3A78A7.dita	Fri Jun 11 12:39:03 2010 +0100
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
-<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
-"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
-and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
-<!-- Initial Contributors:
-    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
-Contributors: 
--->
-<!DOCTYPE concept
-  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
-<concept id="GUID-B683496C-652E-5F48-924E-52D2FF3A78A7" xml:lang="en"><title>Direct
-File Store</title><shortdesc>The main characteristic of a direct file store is that streams
-can be created and objects externalized to them but, once the streams have
-been committed and closed, they cannot subsequently be changed.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
-<p>Once the streams have been committed and closed, they cannot be replaced,
-deleted, extended or changed in any way. A direct file store is useful for
-the type of application which treats the in-memory copy of its data as its
-prime copy, such as a word processor which implements the classic load/save
-paradigm. In this paradigm:</p>
-<ul>
-<li id="GUID-DE651688-71D8-5E52-BA3A-D3ED93B58F55"><p>application data is
-first created, in an internal, non-persistent, form — i.e., in RAM</p> </li>
-<li id="GUID-F6012000-CE82-5940-9CEB-386664FF0EA5"><p>when the file is first
-saved, the data is externalised to the file store. When saving its data, an
-application writes the whole object network forming the data to a new direct
-file store, replacing any existing file of the same name. The last stream
-written is always the root stream.</p> </li>
-<li id="GUID-9896F0DD-1D96-5EC7-959F-D3C7EB226BD6"><p>the application can
-exit</p> </li>
-<li id="GUID-27B6B647-FA91-52BF-855C-2F6CE31AB0E6"><p>when the application
-is started again, it can open the file store and read in the persistent data.
-It need not load the whole object network into memory; the loading of objects
-can be deferred by using Swizzles. </p> </li>
-<li id="GUID-1BF73B14-8CB1-57B3-A687-7C76B5100C9E"><p>the data is edited in
-its internal, non-persistent form</p> </li>
-<li id="GUID-8FFA6658-0753-5601-979A-2833AD415691"><p>when data is saved again,
-the old file is erased (or renamed for safety!) and completely rewritten</p> </li>
-</ul>
-<p>With a direct file store, a stream may not be appended once it has been
-written and closed. Writing to different streams may not be interleaved. The
-root stream must be the last stream to be written. The direct file store is
-very efficient as the allocation of new streams, and finding existing streams,
-are trivially mapped onto the most efficient operations of the underlying
-file system.</p>
-<p>For this type of application, the most efficient file format is obtained
-when all the data is written in sequence to the file. Any references within
-the file are to data which was written earlier. When reading the file back,
-it is read in several sections starting with a section that is at the <i>end</i> of
-the file.</p>
-<p>A typical relationship between a direct file store and its contained streams
-is shown below. In this stream network streams <i>I</i> and <i>J</i> must
-be written before stream <i>A</i>; stream <i>K</i> must be written before
-stream <i>C</i>; streams <i>A</i>,<i>B</i> and <i>C</i> must be written before
-the root stream.</p>
-<fig id="GUID-D45A96E3-5900-5817-8B32-8AA74E3DE584">
-<title>Streams linked in a store</title>
-<image href="GUID-DE5FC074-75C1-5833-83B2-D25396F52732_d0e360725_href.png" placement="inline"/>
-</fig>
-<p>Direct file stores are encapsulated by the <codeph>CDirectFileStore</codeph> class. </p>
-</conbody><related-links>
-<link href="GUID-D7211372-9411-5A18-88F0-615F4983A2E0.dita"><linktext>Store Streams</linktext>
-</link>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
+<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
+"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
+and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
+<!-- Initial Contributors:
+    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-B683496C-652E-5F48-924E-52D2FF3A78A7" xml:lang="en"><title>Direct
+File Store</title><shortdesc>The main characteristic of a direct file store is that streams
+can be created and objects externalized to them but, once the streams have
+been committed and closed, they cannot subsequently be changed.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>Once the streams have been committed and closed, they cannot be replaced,
+deleted, extended or changed in any way. A direct file store is useful for
+the type of application which treats the in-memory copy of its data as its
+prime copy, such as a word processor which implements the classic load/save
+paradigm. In this paradigm:</p>
+<ul>
+<li id="GUID-DE651688-71D8-5E52-BA3A-D3ED93B58F55"><p>application data is
+first created, in an internal, non-persistent, form — i.e., in RAM</p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-F6012000-CE82-5940-9CEB-386664FF0EA5"><p>when the file is first
+saved, the data is externalised to the file store. When saving its data, an
+application writes the whole object network forming the data to a new direct
+file store, replacing any existing file of the same name. The last stream
+written is always the root stream.</p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-9896F0DD-1D96-5EC7-959F-D3C7EB226BD6"><p>the application can
+exit</p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-27B6B647-FA91-52BF-855C-2F6CE31AB0E6"><p>when the application
+is started again, it can open the file store and read in the persistent data.
+It need not load the whole object network into memory; the loading of objects
+can be deferred by using Swizzles. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-1BF73B14-8CB1-57B3-A687-7C76B5100C9E"><p>the data is edited in
+its internal, non-persistent form</p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-8FFA6658-0753-5601-979A-2833AD415691"><p>when data is saved again,
+the old file is erased (or renamed for safety!) and completely rewritten</p> </li>
+</ul>
+<p>With a direct file store, a stream may not be appended once it has been
+written and closed. Writing to different streams may not be interleaved. The
+root stream must be the last stream to be written. The direct file store is
+very efficient as the allocation of new streams, and finding existing streams,
+are trivially mapped onto the most efficient operations of the underlying
+file system.</p>
+<p>For this type of application, the most efficient file format is obtained
+when all the data is written in sequence to the file. Any references within
+the file are to data which was written earlier. When reading the file back,
+it is read in several sections starting with a section that is at the <i>end</i> of
+the file.</p>
+<p>A typical relationship between a direct file store and its contained streams
+is shown below. In this stream network streams <i>I</i> and <i>J</i> must
+be written before stream <i>A</i>; stream <i>K</i> must be written before
+stream <i>C</i>; streams <i>A</i>,<i>B</i> and <i>C</i> must be written before
+the root stream.</p>
+<fig id="GUID-D45A96E3-5900-5817-8B32-8AA74E3DE584">
+<title>Streams linked in a store</title>
+<image href="GUID-DE5FC074-75C1-5833-83B2-D25396F52732_d0e354645_href.png" placement="inline"/>
+</fig>
+<p>Direct file stores are encapsulated by the <codeph>CDirectFileStore</codeph> class. </p>
+</conbody><related-links>
+<link href="GUID-D7211372-9411-5A18-88F0-615F4983A2E0.dita"><linktext>Store Streams</linktext>
+</link>
 </related-links></concept>
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