- From: Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:00:21 +0200
- To: discuss@openoffice.org
- Cc: www-xml-packaging@w3.org
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:52:01AM +1300, David Mohring wrote:
> > > > Unless you end up with something that is not XML - all of them will.
> > > > After all, the BLOBs would be still XML "objects" inside the file, no?
> > >
> > > Well, sure... but will they be able to format it or extract the
> > > pictures?
> >
> > No, that would have to be left to the application.
>
> But it could still be part of the W3.org future standard
> See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-packaging/
It's not scheduled yet. this list was there partly to gauge interest
and as you can see there wasn't much except the initial announcement.
This is a public list (which I'm maintaining) feel free to subscribe
and get this debate done there or continue on this list.
My own point of view is that:
- if you include the BLOB within XML then you will face some
technical difficulties
- it's better to use external entities for this (very few people
seems to understand XML Notations
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#Notations )
- the way to shrinkwrap everything into a simple file is better
left to something else (KDE seems to use tar.gz, I do suggest
ZIP since one can seek into a ZIP archive)
- Metadata information could be kept as a entry in the ZIP like
in the JAR format except that I would use an XML syntax to
store those metadata
Daniel
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