Re: [Sodipodi-list] Sodipodi development directions

[Charles I. K. <tn...@li...>]

Hello,

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 19:57, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:

[...]

> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 14:11, rob wrote:
> > Ah OK I see. I'm curious as to whats wrong with embedding it in the
> > SVG?  
> 
> You loose human-readability if tiny SVG content is buried
> between handful of 100+k images.
> The same seeking problems arise - well-designed binary files
> can be accessed randomly - XML not. etc.

If you wanted to stick with SVG stuff, and still keep the binary stuff
from being embedded.  Then how about using something like e-mail 
attachments.

Where you'd have a file format like:

    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: Multipart/Related; ...

    --1384742970-528400789-1038535322=:5880
    Content-Type: image/svg+xml

    <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
    <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG April 1999//EN" 
      "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/svg-19990412.dtd">
    <svg width="4in" height="3in">
        <desc>Just some SVG code</desc>
        <g>
            <rect x="20" y="30" width="100" height="80"/>
            <image xlink:href="cid:12345" />
            <image xlink:href="cid:abcde" />
        </g>
    </svg>
    

    --1384742970-528400789-1038535322=:5880
    Content-Type: image/png
    Content-ID:  <12345>

        ... The PNG Image Data goes here...


    --1384742970-528400789-1038535322=:5880
    Content-Type: image/png
    Content-ID: <abcde>


        ... Another PNG's Image Data goes here...

    --1384742970-528400789-1038535322=:5880

(Note, I left out a bunch of stuff.  But hopefully
it illustrates the idea. Binary data is NOT embedded.
But is referred to using the "cid" type URI.  But
at the same time, binary data is kept in the same
file.)


See ya

-- 
     Charles Iliya Krempeaux, BSc
     ch...@re...

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