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Maybe if there were a standard clever zip file like .jar with an XML-aware manifest like XML Catalogs - if it were just dealing with XML it might be called an XML archive file (.xar? or is that taken) but if it were a more general purpose archive file perhaps it might be called something like 'general archive', .gar say (if not taken). Then is could be a step not just in XProc but also Ant, etc. And if it was an open standard it could be built into almost everything and include media-type information, etc. Really it is a modernized web archive file, dealing with all kinds of media, including XML, schemas, stylesheets, etc and zipped archives like .odt too. On 21/12/2007, Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@g...> wrote: > I just think what is obviously needed is a genaralisation of what ODF and OOXML > have solved by zipping and manifesting (as did other archive solutions such as > .war and .ear). Just a matter of standardizing the folder structure, > manifest file > format (which acts like an XML Catalogue file) and the compression > plus some rules > about pulling in all necessary files into the archive (like when > saving/synchronising > web files for offline use). This could include not just XML files and > other web files > but also any media or office file like slides, images, maybe even > perhaps single file > databases like Base. Would be extremely cool I think and very much needed for > archiving - to even be able to archive a whole website in a standard, > durable way. > > On 20/12/2007, Ken North <kennorth@s...> wrote: > > > It should be a container with everything necessary to process a document > > instance -- without requiring net connections. ODF and OOXML-encoded docs are > > two use cases, but there are others. > > > > > -- Stephen Green Partner SystML, http://www.systml.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 117 9541606 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+22:37 .. and voice
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