Re: Request: Test suite for EFS.

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 08:05:44AM -0600, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> > This is obviously pseudo-code and not usable directly.  But the main
> > problem that it brings up is getting the MIME type of the embedded
> > streams.  I think we have to add a get_mime_type() method to
> > PersistStream.  We at least need to be able to detect if the stream is 
> > going to send us back XML, so that we can just drop it in-place
> > instead of base64 encoding it, or whatever.
> 
> The fact that OLE2 just stores the class id in the stream happens to
> be a nice side effect.  The stream can be anything (XML binary, SS).
> 
> But XML still does not provide a file-system-inside-a-file
> abstraction, or if it does, it does it in the most inneficiently mode
> that someone could think of.
> 
> XML might be cute, but how does an image look in XML?  Not very
> XML-ish if you ask me.  It looks base64-ish to me.

  depends on the image format of course ! SVG and a couple of other
format just looks nice in XML ...

Daniel

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