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authorDan Winship <danw@src.gnome.org>2000-03-01 08:28:52 +0800
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Reorg a bit more, make the <PRE> section narrower, add more references to
* camel.sgml: Reorg a bit more, make the <PRE> section narrower, add more references to graphics (the graphics themselves are still in beta), add a section on CamelStream. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1996
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-rw-r--r--doc/white-papers/mail/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml42
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/white-papers/mail/ChangeLog b/doc/white-papers/mail/ChangeLog
index 9e3830a238..6d4e8b7f8a 100644
--- a/doc/white-papers/mail/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/white-papers/mail/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2000-02-29 Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
+
+ * camel.sgml: Reorg a bit more, make the <PRE> section narrower,
+ add more references to graphics (the graphics themselves are
+ still in beta), add a section on CamelStream.
+
2000-02-28 Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
* camel.sgml: add Bertrand to authors, edit his additions
diff --git a/doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml b/doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml
index 44b615a9ed..14f7a88747 100644
--- a/doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml
+++ b/doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml
@@ -56,10 +56,6 @@
which set some of the boundaries on its requirements and
extensibility.
</para>
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1 id="features">
- <title>Features</title>
<para>
&Camel; sees all message repositories as stores containing
@@ -103,6 +99,8 @@
<sect1 id="overview">
<title>Overview</title>
+ <graphic format="gif" fileref="camel"></graphic>
+
<para>
To begin using &Camel;, an application first creates a
<classname>CamelSession</classname> object. This object is used
@@ -188,10 +186,6 @@
<sect1 id="classes">
<title>Major Subcomponents</title>
- <para>
- XXX
- </para>
-
<sect2 id="store">
<title>The Message Store</title>
@@ -266,6 +260,8 @@
handling for the RFC822 headers.
</para>
+ <graphic format="gif" fileref="mimemessage"></graphic>
+
<para>
Consider a message with two parts: a text part (in both plain
text and HTML), and an attached image:
@@ -276,18 +272,20 @@
To: Matt Loper &lt;matt@helixcode.com&gt;
Subject: the Camel white paper
MIME-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="jhTYrnsRrdhDFGa"
+ Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
+ boundary="jhTYrnsRrdhDFGa"
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--jhTYrnsRrdhDFGa
- Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="sFSenbAFDSgDfg"
+ Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
+ boundary="sFSenbAFDSgDfg"
--sFSenbAFDSgDfg
Content-Type: text/plain
Hey, Matt
- Check out this graphic and tell me if you think it works.
+ Check out this graphic...
-- Dan
@@ -296,7 +294,7 @@
Hey, Matt&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
- Check out this graphic and tell me if you think it works.&lt;br&gt;
+ Check out this graphic...&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
-- Dan&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
@@ -317,4 +315,24 @@
<graphic fileref="samplemsg"></graphic>
</sect2>
+ <sect2 id="streams">
+ <title>Streams</title>
+
+ <para>
+ Streams are a generic data transport layer. Two basic stream
+ classes are <classname>CamelStreamFs</classname>, for
+ reading and writing files, and
+ <classname>CamelStreamMem</classname>, for reading from and
+ writing to objects that are already in memory.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Streams can also be chained together. So a CamelMimePart
+ containing base64-encoded data can filter its output through
+ a CamelStreamB64. Other parts of the application that want
+ to read its data will never need to even realize that the
+ original data was encoded.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
</article>