[WF-Protocols] Proposals on common format

[Jorrit Tyberghein]

Aglanor wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 23:04, Killemov wrote:
>
>>Reality check: The IFF format has been a proposed standard since 1985!
>>
>>http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/developer/75lwsdk/docs/filefmts/eaiff85.html
>>
>
>	Very interesting read! I found quite insightful the first part about
>standards, specially this line: ;)
>
>	The IFF philosophy: "A little behind-the-scenes conversion when
>programs read and write files is far better than NxM explicit conversion
>utilities for highly specialized formats."
>
>	Seems IFF or derivated is the format of choice for binary. Jorrit, a
>DOM-model based binary is compatible with such a thing or do you think
>it would be essentially incompatible?
>
I think it could be mapped to DOM. A DOM is basically just a tree 
representing the
parsed file. So I guess you could parse binary IFF and put it in a DOM 
just as well as
regular XML. At least for this 3D format. Not in general XML.

Greetings,

>
>
>	I'm wrapping up all the proposed file layouts on a summary mail. BTW,
>perhaps we could start defining what we want to see in the model format,
>and after having some requirements (for instance for meshes and
>submeshes) it would help in the decision on the layout.
>
>	Regards,
>
>	Aglanor
>
>
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