Opened to the last member,
each read by its own handler.
A container is not a document; it holds them. The handler opens an archive to its members, routes each one to the handler for its own format, and keeps the path it was found at.
LLX-HANDLER-ARC · R2 · 7 formats
Three things treating an archive as one file loses.
The member path
Where a file sat inside the archive is kept, so a document can be located exactly as it was disclosed.
Nested containers
An archive inside an archive is opened in turn, to the last member, however deep it goes.
Per-member custody
Each member is sealed on its own bytes, so a citation points at a file rather than at a bundle.
The questions bundles usually decide.
What was actually disclosed
Every member is listed with its path and digest, so the contents of a disclosure are established.
DisclosureWhether a file was in the bundle
Absence is reported as absence, with the archive listing as the evidence of it.
CompletenessWhich copy is the original
The same document across several archives is matched, and each copy keeps its own custody record.
DuplicatesRead in place, in the format it arrived in.
The file is never converted or re-saved. It is read where it lies, and the handler records a SHA-512 of the bytes it read — so a passage cited today can be replayed against the same file years from now.