Re: [office-metadata] Custom schemas and semantics

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

Patrick Durusau wrote:

...

> So, the advantages of using metadata seemed to be two-fold: 1) It 
> becomes unnecessary to write custom applications for customary 
> functions, 2) The semantics of the document would be explicit and not 
> implied.

Exactly!

> I don't think this requires any changes by the metadata SC but I thought 
> it is an interesting way to think about using metadata with ODF documents.

Yes, I and some others here have always had in mind that this framework 
provides a better solution for the kinds of use cases that "custom 
schema" support offers in MS Office. And you explain well why that's the 
case.

Bruce