Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 13:07 -0600, M. David Peterson wrote:
> Oh, sorry... what I should have stated is any advice on where to start
> for the extended list of XML formats that there is no support for at
> the moment.  In regards to Office files, I doubt much that the .doc
> and .ppt have been converted to OOXML formats, so these would
> obviously not qualify as XML.  In this regard, I have already taken
> your advice from before and started working on the suggested
> solution. 

Yes, Victor, can you help get David started please. Seems like there are
three pieces

1. identifying formats needed

2. figuring out best method for adding to ccHost (getid3/pseudo file
verify)

3. cleaning/detection of possible malware

VS, can you technically outline best approaches for David to get started
on this please.

thx! This is super cool!

Jon

> On 7/10/07, Victor Stone <fourstones.net AT gmail.com> wrote:
>         On 7/10/07, M. David Peterson <xmlhacker AT gmail.com> wrote:
>         > On 7/9/07, Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org> wrote:
>         > Fortunately XML happens to be one my specialties ;-)  I'll
>         be happy to do 
>         > the work in this space.  Again, will push everything through
>         the dev lists
>         > to ensure proper coordination with everyone/everything else
>         to ensure I am
>         > headed in the proper technical direction.
>         > 
>         > Any advice on where I should start?
>         
>         as I've said elsewhere since the verification is about malware
>         detection, esp. in regards to office files I would highly
>         recommend
>         looking into a export/import model where the upload is
>         translated into 
>         a benign format (like script-less html or xml). I'm sure
>         there's a
>         community of doc-weenies out there that knowd this stuff.
>         getID3 is
>         focused on media.
>         
>         VS
> 
> 
> 
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