A Compound Document Format for Handheld Devices

Handheld devices have recently gained access to the Internet. The devices differ a lot from traditional desktop computers what comes to, for instance, browsing the Web. Several parties have defined specifications, which facilitates creating Web documents for handheld devices. In this paper, we have defined document profile, which combines many document formats targeted for handheld devices. The result is compound document profile, through which can be realized multimedia presentations in handhelds. The profile has two configurations, from which one can select depending on target device’s resources.