DOCBOOK: RE: Macromedia Flash file in docbook

[Ming Fai <mingfai@pdsky.com>]

hi,

thank you for all of your replies.

It seems converting to SVG is a possible solution. I'll look at it in
details.

At the best, I hope I can preserve the original swf format. And have the
content render to html code, just like the following:

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" WIDTH="800"
HEIGHT="600"
CODEBASE="http://active.macromedia.com/flash5/cabs/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0
,0">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="flash.swf">
<PARAM NAME=play VALUE=true>
<PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false>
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<EMBED SRC="flash.swf" WIDTH=800 HEIGHT=600 loop=false quality=high
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_
Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

It seems swf is more like a videoobject than a imageobject.

I use docbook xsl at http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/ to render some
of my docbook xml document. It seems docbook xsl does not support rendering
flash <object ...> code, right? Let me post the question to DocBook App mail
list.

regards,
mingfai

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@mercury]On Behalf Of Norman Walsh
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:39 AM
> To: Ming Fai
> Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: Macromedia Flash file in docbook
>
>
> [ Follow-ups to DocBook apps, I think ]
>
> / Ming Fai <mingfai@pdsky.com> was heard to say:
> | I use docbook as the format to store content for my website.
> Now, there is a
> | new page that need to use Macromedia Flash (.swf) file. After
> looked at the
> | reference of mediaobject, it seems none of them is for holding
> this kind of
> | web animation file. And obviously, the docbook xsl doesn't support the
> | transformation of flash movie.
>
> It's either an imageobject or a videoobject, I think.
>
> | (http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/) Am I correct? So, could
> | anybody give me an advice on the preferred way to store and transform
> | docbook with flash?
>
> What do you need the transformation to be? (What HTML output do you need?)
>
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