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Re: No more W3C plans to address packaging

From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:48:52 -0600
Message-Id: <3.0.32.20001031154840.00e55c68@pophost.arbortext.com>
To: www-xml-packaging@w3.org
At 16:28 2000 10 31 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>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/

By "contribute" I assume you talking about some specific code rather 
than a discussion of XML packaging.

This is the mailing list that was developed to talk about XML Packaging,
and I wanted to make sure folks didn't think they should go elsewhere
to discuss XML packaging.  

paul
Received on Tuesday, 31 October 2000 16:48:38 GMT

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