Re: xproc article on ibm

And also you can vectorize your image in SVG ...

Xmlizer



On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:01 AM, James Fuller <james.fuller.2007@gmail.com>
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> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Steven Livingstone-Perez
> > I look forward to seeing more implementations also - I had been writing
> something that was a more general case (Xml/Xslt being a specific case).
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> they are coming ...
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> > I'm still trying to figure out the pros and cons of passing, say a base64
> encoded image (and I guess its associated metadata) through XProc as opposed
> to just using binary as was my original intention.
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> remember XProc (and all its steps) only accepts XML documents as its
> input so trying to manipulate a base64 encoded image would have to be
> performed in the context of this data set within an XML document
> (perhaps containing the associated metadata you mention).
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> there are other standards for embedding metadata in an image....
> something like Adobe XMP(1) and I could imagine that an XProc
> implementation could implement an extension step to work with these
> types of images.
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> cheers, Jim Fuller
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> 1- http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/
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Received on Wednesday, 25 June 2008 09:45:19 UTC