File Format for Scribus 1.3.x

Introduction
The introduction of the new, 100% XML compliant Scribus file format and its DTD is planned for the 1.3.2 release. The current Scribus file format has some limitations, which should be polished in order to speed things up in Scribus. Please use this space to bring in your ideas and comments.

Current status
I'm working on it. Will post a link to my arch repository when the first working version is out. Then people can pour in suggestions and patches.
 * Feature request 111 - assigned to malex

Things to improve
Done - I've already incorporated this into the new DTD. After a discussion with other devz it seems the consensus is that the numerous smart hyphens and spaces should be processed as Unicode chars - no special elements will be used in the file format. So, I'm removing the element I made for this.
 * 1) Better implementation of hyphenation -- see bug #1475

Community Input Requested
Character Styles - please help making a complete list of attributes of a character style with proper DTP terminology.

Suggestions for styles to be stored in the file format
I have no idea whether this is too late in the discussion/development, but just in case, I add a list of items that could/should be stored as styles in Scribus files.

Proposal for styles in Scribus:


 * Characters
 * Paragraphs
 * Lists
 * TOC
 * Indices
 * Footnotes
 * Endnotes
 * Page numbering
 * Hyphenation
 * Masterpages
 * Frames
 * Colours
 * Colour sets
 * Gradients
 * Lines
 * Tables
 * Table items
 * Guides
 * Polygons
 * Shapes
 * Tabulators
 * Barcodes
 * Layers
 * Pictures
 * Output
 * Export
 * Import