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Re: Captions for audio clips

From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:37:08 -0500 (EST)
To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
cc: "J.R. van Ossenbruggen" <Jacco.van.Ossenbruggen@cwi.nl>, geoff freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>, Marja-Riitta Koivunen <marja@w3.org>, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org, "webmaster@dors.sailorsite.net" <webmaster@dors.sailorsite.net>, "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, "'pjenkins@us.ibm.com'" <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>, www-smil@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.9912220936040.10286-100000@tux.w3.org>
Yes, but as far as I know that won't help since you aren't allowed to put the
text somewhere else in the file (unless using comments or something, but that
seems much too much of a hack to be a smart answer).

Charles

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Chris Lilley wrote:

  
  
  "J.R. van Ossenbruggen" wrote:
  > 
  > About the complaints that SMIL 1.0 forces you to split up the text in
  > many small files:
  > 
  > Note that in SMIL 1.0, you can have text in the SMIL file by using the
  > <text src="data:..." /> syntax.  I know this is not ideal when you
  > edit SMIL by hand: you probably will need some tool to escape the
  > illegal URI characters (such as spaces etc).
  
  In SMIL Boston, it should be possible to say 
  
  <text href="xptr(pointer to elsewhere in the file)">
  
  shouldn't it?
  
  --
  Chris
  

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