Hi, On Friday 15 August 2003 2:30 pm, Austin Donnelly wrote: > When this discussion started, I didn't like the idea of XML with binary > data portions. I liked the current binary, tagged, format we have, and > thought that it should just be extended. However, after the recent > discussion I've come around to quite liking an ar-style archive with a XML > catalog, XML metadata, and texels as separate members. I think this is > roughly what Leonard was suggesting; we should listen to the voice of > experience. If I may add my two penn'th: Some thought needs to be given to how parasites are going to be stored - I'm thinking particularly of embedded ICC profiles here (IIRC the TIFF plugin attaches any encountered profile as a parasite). Profiles can be large, so that last thing you'd want to do with one is attempt to text-encode it within an XML file. I'd personally lean towards having a "Parasites" directory within the archive, and then filing the parasites within it by name, in text or binary format as is appropriate... All the best, -- Alastair M. Robinson Email: blackfive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ALIMONY: Corruption of Middle English "Alle ye money".
