[CREATE] OpenRaster core XML pondering (Re: OpenRaster page)

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 11:28 +0200, Øyvind Kolås wrote:
> * Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> [060821 10:22]:
> >> ...
> > This all looks pretty interesting...where else is this spec'd out?
> > Krita-devs, what are you guys thinking? Pippin, it would be great to get
> > some more core gimp developers on here to discuss this as well...
> 
> This isn't spec'ed further out, except perhaps a few more examples done
> with pen in a notebook. and thus is not implemented yet. But it can be
> seen as an evolution of oxide[1], xcf2[2] or the current XML processing
> tree format in GEGL CVS [3].
> 
> > What does OpenDocument use for the root element? I wonder how we can
> > best integrate with ODF?
> 
> This is only the core XML representation of a tree of layers. Further
> specing would also entail things like deciding if groups of layers even
> should be allowed in a baseline, what set of operations needs to be
> available etc. For now I might even just continue using <gegl> as the
> root level element.

This is all interesting and awesome...thanks for pushing these
along...how can myself and others help out in pushing this along?

Jon

> /Øyvind K.
> 
> 1: http://pippin.gimp.org/oxide/
> 2: http://pippin.gimp.org/xcf2/
> 3: http://pippin.gimp.org/gegl/
> 
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