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Re: Packaging? - Oh you mean Compound documents

From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:25:48 -0400
Message-Id: <200007281522.LAA30267@hesketh.net>
To: David Mohring <heretic@ihug.co.nz>, www-xml-packaging@w3.org
At 07:41 PM 7/28/00 +1200, David Mohring wrote:
>I suggested using the zip ( or now java jar ) file format some time ago.
> 
>http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/199902/msg00101.html

I'm not sure that packaging will always involve delivering every document
described, so I'm not sure that a zip/jar format makes sense in general.

A non-validating parser might be interested to know some details about a
document, for instance, but might not care to download every related document.

Also, parsers tend to process more than one document of a particular type,
making caching potentially a more useful strategy than combination and
compression.

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
Received on Friday, 28 July 2000 11:22:59 GMT

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