Re: [office] Suggested ODF1.2 items

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Florian,

Florian Reuter wrote:

>Hi Bruce,
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>the problem here is that we need to be able to encode documents like
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><p><span/><field-start/><span/><p>
><p><span/><field-end/></p>
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Did you mean:

<p><span/><field-start/><span/></p>
<p><span/><field-end/></p>


Ah, are both <field-start> and <field-end> empty elements?

To put it another way: What is the content that is being surrounded by 
the <field-*> tags?

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

>~Florian
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>>>>Bruce D'Arcus <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us> 12/11/06 3:45 PM >>>
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>I never weighed in on this suggestion of Florian's, in part because it 
>relates to on-going discussions at the metadata SC, but since I recall 
>there's some discussion of these suggestions going on now-ish ...
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>On Nov 20, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Florian Reuter wrote:
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>>Fields:
>>* enhance field support by introducing a <text:field-start/> and a 
>><text:field-end/> element to which metadata can be attached.
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>I think before we get specific about that, I'd agree we need one (or 
>more) generic metadata fields.
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>The start/end approach seems potentially dangerous to me (how do you 
>handle well-formedness if the field spans across the end of a content 
>node?), but my more important concern is that the field (or at least 
>one of them) consist of two distinct structures: structure and 
>presentation.  E.g. Daniel Vogelheim and I settled on a structure like 
>this for the citation field:
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>field
>	source
>	body
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>If you're concerned about interop with OOXML, they also do something 
>similar (though encode all of the "source" in a single attribute, which 
>I think a bad design choice).
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>Bruce
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