Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > On 2/21/07, Matthias B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What we would like to do is to put an extra binary file into >> the ODT file (which after all is just a ZIP archive) and to read this >> file in our custom component. > > Isn't the idea of meta-data in ODF 1.2 intended for these type of > applications ? > Do I understand correctly that this would mean that such local "application > specific" data is part of the XML context, but with specific local tags that > are > not part of the standard ? > > Or is the use of a simple file addition to the ZIP format the more elegant > solution ?
The idea of embedded content doesn't stop where XML based data ends. At times it might be desired to add some data that a component, e.g. an extension assigns to the document to enable a workflow based on it. This is not an ODF but an OOo thing. What exactly this could be should be answered by people like Matthias B. We had that ability to embed external data for a long time as it was requested by users, customers and software developers and it still has its merits. ODF metadata as I understood always should be bound to some elements in the document, but that isn't necessarily true for the "BLOBs" we are talking about. OTOH if someone wanted to attach some data to parts of the document I agree that he should check whether going the metadata way might be more appropriate (once it is ready to use). Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
