Hello,
I contacted you not long ago about an "icon issue" regarding XBEL in general and Konquerer in particular.
I also contacted David Faure of KDE who implemented XBEL (well, almost ;-)) for Konquerer bookmarks. After some exchanged messages (having in mind that most of todays browsers tend to be fairly colourful ;-)) we came to a conclusion that it would be a good thing to change (or extend) XBEL a bit. We propose an icon repository at the end of XBEL document in form of an <icons> element, something like this
<icons> <icon id="..." location="..."> base64-encoded data. </icon> ... </icons>
To be more specific, <icon>s could point to external locations (web URL's or local-machine repositories) and/or keep icon data inlined as, say, base64-encoded binary (Mozilla(s) already have that), containing images in various formats (jpegs, gifs, pngs), ico files, maybe even something more exotic (in that case we'd also need to put a content-type in there somewhere).
Bookmarks could then refer to these icons (through their ids) with some referrer attribute.
The point of all this is that having such a format could result in a compact (one XBEL file) bookmark repository.
I'd be glad to leave the details of specification to you. What I need to know is whether you'd even consider it, and if so, how soon can we expect the actual specification?
I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards, David _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
