Talk:Advanced Stream Redirector

Latest comment: 15 years ago by Andy Dingley in topic XML compatibility

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An ASX file is an extensible Markup Language (XML) based text file which references a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for a piece of media content. Simplest ASX file

 <ASX version = "3.0">
  <ENTRY>
   <REF HREF = "mms://server/path/sample.asf" />
  </ENTRY>
 </ASX>

Windows Media Metafile

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I think this article should be renamed "Windows Media Metafile", as described in this MS article. Microsoft seem to refer to it more widely as this now, encorporating some other file extensions (.wmx, .wvx, .wax). --Jeffthejiff | Talk 18:43, 25 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

How relevant is this format in 2008?

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It's a long time since I encountered this format (1997-ish). Is it still relevant, or has it been entirely replaced by others? Andy Dingley (talk) 17:22, 19 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

XML compatibility

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When this format was first announced, it (and also CDF) was "XML-like" but not entirely compatible with well-formed XML syntax. In particular it was insensitive to case of element names, but was sensitive to the attribute delimiter character (") but not (') AFAIR. Does anyone remember more, did they ever fix this with later versions, and does anyone have WP:RS to support this? Thanks. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:26, 19 December 2008 (UTC)Reply