A method of transferring a file includes generating a version of an object version at the source entity as a function of the profile of the destination entity (e.g., screen, calculation capacity, storage). A basic document is basic version of the object described in a document written in a markup language (e.g., XML). One or more transformations are defined (for example into the XSL format). The application of a transformation to the basic document allows generation of a transformed document. An adapted version of the object is generated from the transformed document.