From rossini@biostat.washington.edu  Mon Mar  6 15:02:43 2000
From: rossini@biostat.washington.edu (A.J. Rossini)
Date: 06 Mar 2000 07:02:43 -0800
Subject: [Rd] Re: [Omega-devel] StatDataML
In-Reply-To: Friedrich Leisch's message of "Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:27:25 +0100 (CET)"
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>>>>> "FL" == Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

    DJ> Also, do the data have to be in ASCII format?  What about
    DJ> (possibly mime-encoded) images? sound?

You can insert _SOME_ base64 encoded binary files.  There are
problems, depending on the image encoding format used
(gif/tiff/png/xbm, I'm not sure which are problematic; see the xml-dev
archives for more info).   I think the solutions where simple.

There are XML-based proposals for images that are quite interesting (I
think SDL?  or SML?  Look under the XML computational chemistry
section) Basically, it's a flexible vector-graphics format, that
scales on the fly and has other nice features...

Have you looked at MathML integration for providing output?  Frank
Harrell pop'd up a quite interesting question regarding literate
programming, and this (the SDML) could be one aspect of it...).

Still havn't looked at it; maybe Friday I'll find some time...

best,
-tony

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[Rd] Re: [Omega-devel] StatDataML
A.J. Rossini