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Subject: Re: meta:date vs. dc:~ in OpenDocument v1.0
On Monday 22 August 2005 13:59, Besten, Jens wrote: > Hello David, > > after reading the OpenDocument Specification I am lost at one point. I am a > technical writer for a software company in Cologne, Germany. > > My troubles deal with the meta:date Element/Attribute and the dc:date > Element. > > In schema line 669 (page 59) I read: <attribute name="meta:date"> so I think > "meta:date" is an attribute. But on page 120 I read "This element displays > the information from the <meta:date> element." . So suddenly meta:date is > referenced as an element. meta:date is an attribute. There is a mistake in the paragraph that you quote, then. I am cc'ing the technical committee so that they note that this paragraph must be fixed. > And, completing the chaos, there is also - and > perhaps more important - the <dc:date> - Element, so that meta-date appears > to be redundant. meta:date seems to be used inside the meta:template element, whereas dc:date is the much more generic "date of this document" value. I am not sure why meta:template uses meta:date though, hopefully someone from the committee will know. > All in all a good job, we are thinking about joining the OpenDocument > movement. This is good to hear! -- David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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