Re: [office-metadata] Regarding the “split” problem/use-case

[Bruce D'Arcus <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us>]

On Jan 17, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Patrick Durusau wrote:

>> *Unless* we want to say that the text:name attribute is equivalent to 
>> object:id in that it's purpose is to identify a literal that amy be a 
>> metadata object.
>>
> Well, unless we are in an attribute adding mood. ;-) I am not sure we 
> should overload prior mechanisms in ways that are not really 
> consistent with their prior usage. Probably not a problem in most 
> cases but I think it runs the danger of changing the semantics of 
> attributes in ways that may be unexpected.

Yes, that's true. I was just trying to bring Florian's proposal closer 
in line with what we've been discussing.

Bruce