Editing Compound document

{{Short description|Electronic document format}}
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In [[computing]], a '''compound document''' is a [[Electronic document|document]] that "combines multiple [[Document format|document formats]], either by reference, by inclusion, or both."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wiggins |first1=Bob |title=Effective Document and Data Management |date=2012 |publisher=Gower Publishing Limited |location=Burlington, VT |isbn=978-1-4094-2328-7 |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tyK8aGavlvQC&q=compound%20document |access-date=Dec 18, 2020}}</ref><ref>[https://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-CDR-20100819/#definitions Compound Document by Reference Framework 1.0]</ref> Compound documents are often produced using [[word processor|word processing]] software, and may include text and non-text elements such as [[barcode]]s, [[spreadsheet]]s, [[picture]]s, [[digital video]]s, [[digital audio]], and other [[multimedia]] features.

Compound document [[technology|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 Document]]s
*[[Bonobo (GNOME)|Bonobo]] by [[Ximian]] (primarily used by [[GNOME]])
*[[KParts]] in [[KDE]]
*[[MODCA|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)
*[[RagTime]]
*Verdantuim<ref>{{cite web |title=Verdantium |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/verdantium |website=sourceforge |date=21 December 2015 |access-date=Dec 18, 2020}}</ref>
*[[XML]] and [[Extensible Stylesheet Language|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/index.html|title = DigiBarn: The Xerox Star 8010 (Dandelion)}}</ref>

==vBook==
{{See also|Wiki|Markup language|Vlog}}
A vBook is an [[eBook]] that is [[digital first]] media with embedded [[video]], [[image]]s, [[Chart|graphs]], [[Table (information)|tables]], [[Text (literary theory)|text]], and other [[Media (communication)|media]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.vidyard.com/blog/vbook-video-book-replaces-ebook/ | title=A vBook (Video Book) is the New Alternative to an eBook }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[COM Structured Storage]]
* [[Multiple-document interface]]
* [[Transclusion]]

==References==
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