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docs: record that remote sources and a persistent cache are not planned (#3)
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- `.xlsb` deep workbook parsing is not implemented.
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- Legacy XML iWork documents are recognized and rejected; only modern IWA packages are supported.
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- Pages exposes persisted page geometry, body-text structure, and cached pagination; rendered text-layout reconstruction is not implemented.
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- Network-backed range sources, persistent cache, and plugin loading are not implemented.
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- Network-backed range sources, persistent cache, and plugin loading are not implemented,
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and are **not planned** for now. Both remote reads and a persistent cache would add
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protocol, authentication, invalidation, privacy, and failure-handling surface, and no
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measured workload has yet shown that fetching or rereading remote documents is a
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material cost next to the local-file and byte-input paths. A proposal would need a
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representative corpus with sizes, repeat-probe frequency, bytes transferred, and
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latency before the work is scheduled.
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## Development
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