[odf-discuss] Mars: XMLisation of PDF - opportunity for ODF?

[Daniel Carrera]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 09:24 -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> > <container version="1.0"
> > xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:container">
> >   <relationships xmlns:pdf="http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/2006">
> >     <relationship type="pdf:metadata" target="$path.xmp"/>
> >     <relationship type="pdf:ann" target="$path.ann"/>
> >   </relationships>
> > </container>
> 
> Notwithstanding the namespace, that's not valid ODF though (in fact,
> for no obvious reason!).

More info. It looks like the (proposed) Mars spec uses the Open eBook
Container Format (OCF):

http://www.idpf.org/doc_library/informationaldocs/ocf10-20060612.pdf

In turn, OCF seems to be just someone's proposal for a container format
based on ODF. The OCF spec says that they hope that a future version of
ODF will use OCF.

OCF is where this namespace comes from, so it's not a real OASIS
namespace.

I don't see any problem with ODF using OCF. It seems to me that all
that's needed is to add META-INF/container.xml and leave everything else
the same. On the other hand I don't see massive benefits. It would be
kind of nice to have a separate container spec (I mean, one bigger than
JAR), that could be reused by next-generation-PDF, OpenRaster, Open
eBook and other formats. Besides reducing duplication of work, it might
make it easier to mix and match these specs.

Cheers,
Daniel.
-- 
"I AM in shape. Round IS a shape."
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