Colin, it is the 'charme' of SVG that it is 'all text' therefore full-text searchable. It would be possible to embedd metadata tags (I would recommend Dublin Core) within the SVG XML without being used for display but being accessible through an Xindice query.
Kind regards, Holger On 16 Jul 2003 14:09:49 +0100, Colin Law wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 13:59, Devrim Ergel wrote: > > Do you want to store images as binary files or its > metadata? For each cases > > you can use Xindice as repository. > > Perhaps this is where my understanding is letting me > down. Ideally I > would like to store both the SVG image iteself, and > meta data associated > with the image within the database. > > Can I store the SVG itself straight into Xindice, as > XML, not a binary > file? and then associate metadata with that SVG image > through a second, > associated document? > > or perhaps enclosing both within a container document? > > <doc> > <meta data> [...] </meta data> > <svg data> [...] </svg data> > <doc> > > I am making huge guesses at how this is supposed to > work just now, but > any pointers would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > ~Colin. ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/
