Compound document

In computing, a compound document is a document that “combines multiple document formats, either by reference, by inclusion, or both.”[1] Compound documents are often produced using word processing software, and may include text and non-text elements such as barcodes, spreadsheets, pictures, digital videos, digital audio, and other multimedia features.

Compound document technologies are commonly utilized on top of a software componentry framework, but the idea of software componentry includes several other concepts apart from compound documents, and software components alone do not enable compound documents. Well-known technologies for compound documents include:

ActiveX Documents
Bonobo by Ximian (primarily used by GNOME)
KParts in KDE
Mixed Object Document Content Architecture
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
Object linking and embedding (OLE) by Microsoft; see Compound File Binary Format
Open Document Architecture from ITU-T (not used)
OpenDoc by IBM and Apple Computer (now defunct)
Verdantuim[2]
XML and XSL are encapsulation formats used for compound documents of all kinds

The first public implementation of compound documents was on the Xerox Star workstation, released in 1981.[3]

References

Wiggins, Bob (2012). Effective Document and Data Management. Burlington, VT: Gower Publishing Limited. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-4094-2328-7. Retrieved Dec 18, 2020.
"Verdantium". sourceforge. Retrieved Dec 18, 2020.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/index.html

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[1] Wiggins, Bob (2012). Effective Document and Data Management. Burlington, VT: Gower Publishing Limited. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-4094-2328-7. Retrieved Dec 18, 2020.

[2] "Verdantium". sourceforge. Retrieved Dec 18, 2020.

[3] ttp://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/index.html

Compound document

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