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XFL: He Hate Me Not
Saturday, March 08, 2008 — posted by Sarah
(For those of you with a life, the title is a reference to this.)According to Colin Moock, the next version of Flash will have an XML-based format. He writes:
Flash CS4 will be able to export *and* import a new source format called XFL. An XFL file is a .zip file that contains the source material for a Flash document. Within the .zip file resides an XML file describing the structure of the document and a folder with the document's assets (graphics, sounds, etc). The exact details of the XFL format are not yet available, but Richard [Galvan, Flash authoring-product manager] assures me that Adobe intends to document them publicly, allowing third-party tools to import and export XFL.This is important. Currently, it's fairly impossible to integrate Flash and non-Flash content. Other than, of course, with our 80s friend, Mr. Cut-and-Paste.
If Flash speaks XML, we can develop a process along these lines:
And that has major implications for development of e-learning content and other things that you might expect to find in Flash. At some point, when it's not five minutes before the Duke-Carolina game, I'll try to be more specific.(h/t John Nack)
PS "Carolina Goodnight"? I don't think so. See note 4.
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