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Dear All, I was in discussion with a friend when I thought of the following scenario: I have a jpeg image of the Eiffel Tower. I would like to include with the image some information about the picture, using a fairly standard DTD for family photographs say (a point here is what should the DTD describe, a family photo, a photo in general, media about Paris? I guess this is a combination of personal preference and style, but how the latter is dictated I do not know). How does one add this information to the image? Do you write a separate XML file that contains example details like: <family_photograph> <taken_by>Paul Jolly</taken_by> <taken_when>date</taken_when> .... <!-- Link to photo file here --> ... ... </image_data> </family_photograph> and then link (using XLink??) to the photograph, or do you make the image an XML file in itself and have a format maybe like this: <family_photograph> <taken_by>Paul Jolly</taken_by> .... <image_data type="gif"...> ... ... </image_data> </family_photograph> In the second example, binary data might be within the document, something the parser may not like. Is there already a solution that describes how this might be achieved? In the first example, using XLink, how can you then make a link from the photo to the describing file? I would appreciate some guidance/suggestions on these points. Apologies if such discussion has gone before me, but I have just subscribed to this list. Kind regards, Paul Jolly -- web: http://myitcv.org.uk/ email: paul@m... tel: +44 7748 105236 finger paj00@d... for PGP key
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