Content tagging

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

I am finally working on the metadata use case draft and have a question 
about the use case we called: content tagging.

In part it reads:

> In legal publishing (and presumably other domains) it is quite common 
> to take an existing document (usually published legislation) and 
> manually tag it with semantic information. It is generally critical
> that the presentation be preserved exactly for legal reasons.
>
> For example, a paragraph or series of paragraphs may constitute a 
> legal definition of a term. A span of text may actually be a 
> cross-reference within the same legislation, a reference to case law, 
> or an
> amendment to another act.
>
I seem to remember that the Legal XML folks were concerned that they be 
able to display a series of paragraphs as a list, which is a rendering 
issue.

To what degree are we talking about "style" metadata in this use case?

In other words, for purposes of Legal XML, what is important is not the 
markup per se but the display of the content?

Such that if I had a series of say 3 paragraphs, what I want is to have 
metadata that enable the processing and display of those three 
paragraphs as though it was a list under a leading paragraph?

Should I split this out as "style/display" metadata?

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Patrick@Durusau.net
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005

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