[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: "Binary XML" proposals
Images have not traditionally been a subject for markup. Why? Raster is already in its native format. When discussed (when I've been there), it was in the context of addressing, that is, imposing an address on a region of the raster (see Hytime FCSlocs, etc.) Goldfarb and Chamberlain included raster markup in their seminal paper on non-text applications of SGML. One has to understand that prior to XML, talking about using markup for graphics was considered a faux pas. No I don't remember the ISO standard work you cite. I did not work in the graphics field except in the early eighties in CAD/CAM and then only as writer. If I understand these proposals, including raster will turn this into something along the lines of CGM. So once again, is there a need for a standard XML binary or a specific language binary? I don't have a conscience about my own behaviors, much less, the list. I'm just a committee formed long ago using the name of a guy who used to work for GE. As the actor told George Jetson, "With the suit, anyone can be Dimbus." Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Vegt, Jan [mailto:Jan.Vegt@s...] Medical imagery? Think of the Dicom community. Spatial imagery? I do think Al may have a point regarding raster based image data. One of my main interest's in XML is it's data longetivity potential. What facilities are there for raster (pixel) based data? CGM? Which I believe did cover raster data, but is a pretty (too) complex standard. Len, as the list conscience, would you have memories on stuff like IPI and IPI-IIF? (ISO/IEC 12087) What kind of ideas were behind that? Is it still good, is it bad, or has it turned ugly?
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