[vorbis-dev] XML Format Suggestion

[Kenneth C. Arnold]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 10:01:20PM -0000, enrique at perez.tc wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I suggest using basic XML type tags for the file information, so a typical .ogg
> file would look like:
> 
> <ogg>
>     <author>Beethoven</author>
>     <title>kreutzer violin</title>
>     <oggaudio1.1>binary information here...</oggaudio1.1>
> </ogg>
> 
> this would be make it easy to embed .ogg files in documents and format
> additions.

But what about streaming? What if you pick up the stream after it passes the
tags that are equivalent to the comment headers? Your approach at face value
won't work in that case (though it would be fine for locally-stored files).

Kenneth

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