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Re: No more W3C plans to address packaging

From: Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:28:05 -0500 (EST)
To: Martin Gallwey <mtg@stardivision.de>
Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Robin Berjon <robin@knowscape.com>, www-xml-packaging@w3.org
Message-ID: <20001031222752.A6893@w3.org>
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:08:50PM +0100, Martin Gallwey wrote:
> The OpenOffice project is using a native XML file format and is addressing
> this issue by using a Jar/Zip file to store the main XML document,
> associated binary data, and possibly an XML Manifest file as well. As we
> (the OpenOffice team) are actively working on this packaging format, perhaps
> some of the members of this list might be interested in working on XML
> packaging and using OpenOffice as a test case/prototype that might later
> become a proposal to the W3C?

ZIP like with an XML manifest is what makes the more sense IMHO.
The people who want to contribute, read the dev@xml.openoffice.org list
archive and contribute in that dedicated ML.
   http://xml.openoffice.org/xml-dev/

Daniel

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