Subject: Re: Inline Images??? [ was: Re: Graphic Images ]
rms@greymalkin.yi.org
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 11:08:51 CDT
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:34:50AM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> See my previous posts on structured/embedded storage that people failed to
> respond to. How Word handles things is actually ok.
> Word uses OLE2. OLE2 is an embedded FS (a FS inside of a file actually). It
> has separate streams which are comparable to UNIX directories. So there is a
> "WordDocument" stream which contains the markup (equivalent to our ABW
> modulo the <d> tag basically). It also has an object-storage stream, where
> embedded images, excel spreadsheets, etc... get stored. Word has a very
> generic activation mechanism that lets them turn these "files" into
> components.
This is dumb.
Unless, of course, they don't trust their own fs (understandable) since they do not have a single root directory.
Including external content *inside* a file is brain dead. *SPECIALLY* in an open format, as xml is.
just load everything from a directory (like: filename-data/)
hugs, rms
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