Re: Generic Embeddable plugins.

>
>> My concern here is that while it is possible to
>> embed XML data such as
>> SVG and MathML as XML in the AbiWord document, if
>> (for example) you
>> create an SVG image in Adobe Illustrator, insert it
>> into AbiWord, later
>> extract it from AbiWord, then the resulting SVG will
>> not be the
>> original. Now, you may argue that the differences
>> are acceptable, but
>> it doesn't really satisfy me. The easiest way around
>> this is to embed
>> the original file (base-64-encoded, naturally).
>
> Storing a Base64 representation of the document is by
> far the most natural and robust way of storing this
> information in a flat, AbiWord XML file. Embedded XML
> namespaces will likely cause our parser to be
> confused, plus it doesn't address the general case
> where the thing is not XML (eg. an Excel spreadsheet).
>
>
> Having a common solution instead of 2 competing
> solutions that differ depending on the embedded file's
> type is probably preferable here.
>
> Something possibly worth examining is using a
> structured document format, such as OOo does, in which
> embedded objects (including things like PNG/JPEG
> pictures) are stored in their own "stream".
>
> It should be noted that I'm not advocating adopting
> the OOo format (nor am I advocating against it). I'd
> just like to point out that:
>
> 1) The problem of storing embedded content has been
> solved before by people who have given it a lot of
> thought
> 2) The problem of how to identify and present embedded
> content has been solved before by people who have
> given it a lot of thought
> 3) We have easy access to their answers
>
> "If I've been able to see as far as I have, it's been
> because I've stood on the shoulders of giants."
>
> "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to
> repeat it"
>

Hi Dom,
       Of course you are right. It is more fun for me to think up my own
solution so that's what I did.

As I was working it out it occured to me that netscape had worked out a
solution to this problem ages ago but I never looked at the netscape
plugin API.

I think we should do this.

Cheers

MArtin

> etc...
>
> Best,
> Dom
>
>
>
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Received on Thu Jan 13 00:13:35 2005