Re: [office-metadata] Re: Fwd: [office] proposal to enhanceannotations

["Florian Reuter" <freuter@novell.com>]

Hmm. Looks like a perfect use-case for metadata. 
And especially a lot of time went into the dicussion of ids and overlapping start/end segments.

So I see no reason why introducing yet another extension mechanism.

At least the proposal should be compatible with the metadata spec and not orthogonal.

~Florian


>>> Michael Brauer <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM> 07/26/07 3:00 PM >>>
I don't know, but how does that help?

The proposal is to extend the existing annotations, that are anchored at 
a certain position in the text, by an additional element, so that it 
becomes possible that to anchor them on a range of characters.

Michael

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> Michael Brauer wrote:
>> Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>>> Florian Reuter wrote:
>>>
>>>> wouldn't that be a job for metadata and bookmarks?
>>>
>>> I think yes, it should be.
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>
>> This was my first impression, too.
>>
>> But as Oliver said, the proposal is about slightly extending an 
>> existing feature in a backward compatible manner. Furthermore, the 
>> annotation itself is not just text, but are ODF paragraphs, that again 
>> can make use of styles. So, using metadata, we would not only loose 
>> the backward comptibility, we also would have to find a way to handle 
>> the ODF that is the annotation.
> 
> I don't recall, but can annotations take xml:id in our proposal?
> 
> Bruce


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