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I believe OpenOffice is using something like this: http://xml.openoffice.org/package.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clark C . Evans" <cce@c...> To: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 2:23 PM Subject: .xhz -- XHTML/SVG/PNG Zip File > Hello. I was just trying to solve a simple > packaging problem here -- that is, my HTML files > have lots of PNGs, and other files. What I'd > really like is a Zip "Virtual File System" > standard... > > If a browser hits a .xhz file (XML+HTML+ZIP) file, > it would simply open the "index.html" or "index.xhtml" > file and reset the BASE so that it refers to files > within the Zip Archive. > > This would be very useful... anything like this? > If not, would someone write up an RFC? It's dirt > simple and IE+Mozilla+Opera should be supporting > something like this out-of-the-box. > > Thoughts? > > Clark > > P.S. I _hate_ Microsoft's idea of creating > a directory for all of the images when > you save a web page to disk. Ideally, > IE could save these pages to a .xhz > instead. > > P.S.S. This is probably pretty close to Microsoft's CHM > (Compiled HTML) idea, but I'd rather have the > packaging format non-proprietary so that it can > be used across multiple vendors. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... > > >
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