Re: EBML spec component for review - Abstract
Dave Rice <[email protected]>
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> On Apr 27, 2015, at 7:28 PM, Erik Piil <[email protected]> wrote: > > Opening up discussion regarding the "Abstract" portion of the earlier EBML RFC Draft, for revision/incorporation into the EBML spec. From the RFC Draft: > > "Abstract > > The extensible binary markup language, EBML, is a binary language for storing hierarchical, typed in data in a compact, yet easily parsed format.” In my opinion the abstract in the EBML specification is better than that from the RFC draft, so I propose that the EBML spec abstract can be skipped. The corresponding part of the EBML spec abstract is: "EBML was designed to be a simplified binary extension of XML for the purpose of storing and manipulating data in a hierarchical form with variable field lengths.” [1] On the other hand I’ve never found the word “extension” to be the best word in this context. How about: “EBML is designed to be a compact and simple binary storage format, inspired by XML, for the purpose of storing and manipulating all sorts of digital content and metadata in a hierarchical form with variable field length." Dave Rice [1] https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/gh-pages/index.html#L34 _______________________________________________ Matroska-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.matroska.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/matroska-devel Read Matroska-Devel on GMane: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.devel