RE: [dita] questions about metadata elements

["Bruce Nevin (bnevin)" <bnevin@cisco.com>]

I should have said

 

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topicmeta is the union of prolog and metadata (that is, children of prolog plus children of metadata),
plus metadata itself
plus linktext, searchtitle, shortdesc, navtitle, exportanchors
(in bookmap: plus authorinformation as alternative to author)
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Anyway, the question is about those ten metadata(-ish) elements that are not discussed with the others in *.Elem.dita files.

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From: Bruce Nevin (bnevin)
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:05 PM
To: DITA TC
Subject: [dita] questions about metadata elements

pubMetaElem.dita talks about:
author, publisher, copyright

 

mgtMetaElem.dita talks about:
source, critdates, permissions, resourceid

 

metaQualElem.dita talks about:
audience, category, keywords, prodinfo, othermeta, data

 

These are the only *Elem.dita topic files. The following are not mentioned in them:

 

metadata, data-about, foreign, unknown
linktext, searchtitle, shortdesc
authorinformation
navtitle, exportanchors

 

Are they discussed elsewhere in the Architecture Spec? If not, should they be treated on a par with the above as metadata elements? Or are they set aside for a reason?

 

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topicmeta is the union of prolog and metadata,
plus children of metadata
plus linktext, searchtitle, shortdesc, navtitle, exportanchors
(and in bookmap: plus authorinformation as alternative to author)
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As to including metadata as a peer of its own children, isn't backward compatibility wonderful!  !->

 

    /Bruce