July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
22h 32m
English
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Chapter 24. XML and Multimedia: SMIL—The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
by Andrew Watt
In this chapter
A First SMIL Document
Multimedia and XML
SMIL Modules
The Structure Module
Timing and Synchronization
The Animation Modules
Content Control Modules
The Layout Modules
The Linking Modules
The Media Objects Modules
The Transitions Modules
The Metainformation Module
SMIL Tools
Additional Resources
Roadmap
The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is the XML-based application language that allows the assembly and integration of multimedia components.
This chapter focuses primarily on SMIL version 2.0, which became a W3C Recommendation in August 2001. The full text of the recommendation can be accessed at http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-smil20-20010807/ ...