Object transfer method with format adaptation

It is an object of the invention to propose a method of transferring a file containing a certain version of an object (for example, a multimedia object such as an image, audio or video) from a source entity (for example, a server) to a destination entity (for example, a client), said version being generated at the level of the source entity as a function of the profile of the destination entity (screen, calculation capacity, storage . . . ). According to the invention a basic version of the object is described in a document written in a markup language (for example XML) and called basic document. One or more transformations are defined (for example into the XSL format). The application of a transformation to the basic document permits to generate a transformed document. An adapted version of the object is generated from this transformed document.