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Re: Long overdue update to the UBL to UN Layout Key freerender

• From: Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>
• To: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com>
• Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:12:16 +0000

Sounds great. A name for such a PDF?

An 'entity PDF'?

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Stephen D Green



On 31 January 2011 13:48, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com> wrote:
> At 2011-01-31 13:35 +0000, Stephen Green wrote:
>>
>> Is there a term for this kind of PDF (with it's own data inside it
>> as XML)?
>> If not I reckon it's worth a few ideas to find a catchy one, isn't it?
>
> Not that I know of.
>
> But ... this approach isn't standardized anywhere.  I'm using my own Crane
> namespace for the XMP metadata RDF section that contains the XML in clear
> text.
>
> Since XMP content cannot contain structured XML, only fielded XML, the XML
> instance is reconstituted from the XDM in a single XMP field as clear text
> and not as markup, thus requiring the second step of serializing the clear
> text as markup.  Thankfully this is easy in XSLT.  So I use Python to
> extract the XMP (if I'm not using Acrobat) and XSLT to create the parsed
> content.
>
> And I make these tools freely available so that the process is auditable.
>
> I hope to publish a revision today that more accurately reflects the actual
> input document syntax rather than the reconstituted input document syntax in
> the XMP clear text.
>
> I won't announce the revision here, but I have an RSS feed of releases of
> all of our free developer resources and so revisions can be found using
> this:
>
>  http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/crane-resources.rss
>
> Do you have ideas, Stephen, for anything catchy to call this?
>
> I'm hoping this will be of interest to others, but I haven't had any
> feedback to know if the efforts were worthwhile.
>
> If anyone working on standardizing PDF is interested in standardizing a
> scheme for embedding XML in a PDF file, I'll gladly change what I'm doing.
>
> Thanks, Stephen.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
>
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