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• To: "Rob Decker" <rdecker@q...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: images and urls in xml
• From: "Rob Decker" <rdecker@q...>
• Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 21:06:03 -0500
• Organization: The Sycamore Group
• References: <ILEFJOHDECJBCPDOCEOMCECOCGAA.mike@w...> <019801c17f84$904d24f0$b400a8c0@q...>

Let me add, at worst, display it as text. At best parse and if there's a
stylesheet, transform it and if it knows how to render it, do so.

I think IE does the latter. So if you want to display an image, attach a
stylesheet that transforms the xml to an xhtml document that displays an
image.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Decker" <rdecker@q...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:06 PM
Subject: Re:  images and urls in xml


> XHTML isn't really just XML, it's a utiliziation of XML for HTML
documents.
> There's nothing in the XML spec that says a user agent should render tags
in
> the XHTML namespace. I've never seen a 'how to render an XML document in a
> web browser' spec. But I'd say, since it's just text, maybe it oughta just
> be displayed as such. That way the browser will still be useful for
viewing
> XML. If you want to show an image in a document in a browser why not just
> use XHTML?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Fitzgerald" <mike@w...>
> To: "Wilde, Mark" <mark.wilde@e...>; <xml-dev@l...>
> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 6:16 PM
> Subject: RE:  images and urls in xml
>
>
> > If XHTML is really just XML, why not embed XHTML in your XML to display
an
> > image? For example:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> >
> > <test>
> >  Here is an image: <xhtml:a xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
> > href="url.html"><xhtml:img xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
> > src="image.gif" alt=""/></xhtml:a>
> > </test>
> >
> >
> > This document will display an image in Netscape 6.1 but not with IE 6.0.
> If
> > there is a reason why this should not work (other than the fact that a
> > browser is not conformant), I am unaware of the reason and I'd like to
> hear
> > arguments to the contrary about requirements.
> >
> > Mark, if you want, email me off line and I well send you the files I
used
> to
> > test this.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wilde, Mark [mailto:mark.wilde@e...]
> > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:03 AM
> > To: 'xml-dev@l...'
> > Subject:  images and urls in xml
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I require a little help, how do you store a url and an img in xml I
tried
> > using CDATA but when the page is rendered it gives a text string of the
> > html.
> >
> > in html it's <a href="url"><img src="image"></a> how would I do this in
> XML.
> > ?
> >
> >
> > > Mark Wilde
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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    • From: "Michael Fitzgerald" <mike@w...>
  • Re: images and urls in xml
    • From: "Rob Decker" <rdecker@q...>

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