• From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• To: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:52:13 +1000

no because the archive must be complete without external reference and 
it must not require execution of embedded code (eg javascript) - at 
least to make an old hacker like me happy that the archive is what 
someone saw/would have seen at the time it was created.

Rick

Michael Champion wrote:
> Wouldn't (X)HTML meet these requirements?
>
> */Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>/* wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     So, instead of fighting over ODF/OOXML which can survive with or
>     without
>     each other, perhaps ISO/W3C/OASIS/IETF etc should focus on a
>     (possibly)
>     XML based archive format for documents and data which preserves basic
>     layout, links, binary objects (like jpg, avi, etc) as part of the
>     format. Open Office and Microsoft can conform to Government
>     requirements
>     by having a "Save Archive" option.
>
>     All sorts of applications, not just office functions could target the
>     archive format for long term storage and searching.
>
>     Rick
>
>     PS This is not a request to return to SGML, although it could once
>     again
>     be the starting point.
>
>     Richard Salz wrote:
>     >> Should entities, Xinclude statements, and links be avoided in
>     2007 if
>     >> we wish for XML documents to be usable in 2027?
>     >>
>     >
>     > The issue behind this question is not a fundamentally new one.
>     Very few
>     > documents exist apart from any context, and the legal systems
>     know how to
>     > deal with taht.
>     >
>     > /r$
>     >
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• References:
  • Re: The year is 2027, and we need to examine archived XML documents from 2007 ...
    • From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>