Re: [office-metadata] Document Design and metadata

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

On Nov 6, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Svante Schubert wrote:

> Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Svante Schubert wrote:
>>
>>>> So I'd suggest we leave it aside for now. It is not the most  
>>>> important thing we need to resolve.
>>> I am curious, what is the most important thing for you right now?
>>
>> Deciding on a list of document objects (paragraphs, tables, etc.)  
>> that can be described by metadata,
> Is the actual list really necessary, or would it not be sufficient  
> to decide upon the criteria for such a list for now?

I guess that's fine. My point is that whether we allow a URI to be  
attached to a style (and thus for it to be further described) is a  
trivial detail from the XML standpoint. I don't want to get caught up  
endlessly debating this point now, becuase the answer to the question  
should not have any significant impact on the design.

> Any comments on modification the requirements I stated for creating  
> a XSLT stylesheet to transform the ODF RelaxNG Schema into such a  
> list?

Not that I haven't already offered.

>> and figuring out the mechanism to associated them with metadata  
>> descriptions.
> Right, this would be my next step as well. We might want to split  
> this question into further smaller design questions.
> For example, did we all agree on the design of referencing Meta  
> Data from an external file to the content?

I see this as a separate design problem (why I have it as a separate  
section on the wiki), and not the highest priority for 1.2.

Bruce