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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, David C. Mason wrote: > We are building a slide presentation application for Linux. I have > been suggesting that we use XML for the file format of saved > presentations. This has obvious benefits but it has one major drawback > in our case: > > We are creating this app with a component system (Bonobo) which allows > the user to, for example, save a spreadsheet *within* their > presentation slide. So here we have another file format(not XML) that > needs to be embedded into an xml file. As far as my knowledge takes > me, XML is a bit too "flat" for this - or is it? How can this be > handled in such a way that we still end up with a valid XML document? > Can it? The KDE office seems to put all info in xml files, both spreadsheet, docs and presentations. Embedding them inside eachother shouldn't be a problem. Look at that project for some ideas. Should you wish to integrate binary data (like a 'normal' spreadsheet file) in your xml, I bet you have to use a xlink or so, just like you would with an image. Greetings, Reinout -- Reinout van Rees => R.vanRees@c... +31-15-278-5456 "There's good and evil in all of us. It's up to you alone which to follow" - Geoff Mann *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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