Comment by ludston
2 months ago
But on the other hand, in all database systems the schema is used to determine how the files are laid out. Although I suppose the same thing could be argued for any data that is stored in a file, excepting that a schema is metadata that determines the organisation of data so it's a bit of a special case.
In a Microsoft Word document, the section headings also tell Word how to lay out the Word document file.
Do you mean that section headings aren't a file layout? That's their entire purpose.
Edit: If you're talking about the byte representation only, I don't think section headings indicate the placement of the body's bytes.
Does your interpretation not mean that(coupled with the court ruling that file formats can't be foia'd) any document with sections cannot be requested via FOIA?
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You have found an argument that proves too much.
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Arguably, all requests for files could be returned with all of the letters in the document but scrambled in a random order soas to obfuscate the file layout.