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Subject: Re: [office] Slides about OpenDocument and meta data



Hi Duane,

Thanks for the write up.  I read it over, as well as the RDF slides Florian sent out earlier.  Since I might not be able to make the call tomorrow, I thought I'd send along my questions in advance.

First, is the Dublin Core meta data really located deterministically in existing files?  Is this just the practice of the current OO implementation?  Or is it specified so?  I didn't see this called out in the spec.

The 1.0 OO spec, page 65, section 3.3 "Custom Metadata" says:  "In addition to the pre-defined metadata elements, applications should also preserve any additional content found inside the <office:meta> element. As there is no semantics specified for such foreign content, applications need not process this information other than to preserve it when editing the document."    If I'm reading this right, wouldn't this allow you to simply put the RDF within the <office:meta> tag, allowing extensibility as well as backwards compatibility?  Nothing would need to be moved.  What am I missing?

I'm a bit nervous with the idea of moving the DC, and just leaving a "forwarding address" in the form of IDREF.  Do we have a sense of how transparent this would be for existing processors?  Not just the big OO/KOffice applications, but also the small XSL stylesheets or simple SAX parsers that fill out the document processing ecosystem with viewers, indexers, etc.  I'd feel better if someone could tell me that ID/IDREF processing is transparent among the XML parsers in common use.

Regards,

-Rob



Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>

09/10/2005 05:25 PM

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Florian Reuter <Florian.Reuter@Sun.COM>
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Re: [office] Slides about OpenDocument and meta data





I finished my action item and produced a first draft of an idea for
supporting RDF and still being backwards compatible with DC and other
metadata.  Sorry for the Word doc ;-)

TTYL (monday CC).

Duane

Florian Reuter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> please find attached some slides about OpenDocument and meta data. I
> post these slides as a preparation for the meeting at Monday.
>
> Best regards and nice weekend,
>
> Florian
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