Roundtripping

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

Sorry, another question. This time about roundtripping.

Yes, if we provide the ability, metadata can be associated with ODF 
elements that enable better roundtripping to other XML formats.

Question: Do we mean to include the use case of converting from an XML 
format to ODF, editing the document, and then going back to the foreign 
XML format?
Seems to me that is the most useful case, but then an application has to 
understand when to insert the "source" metadata on the appropriate 
elements in the ODF file.

To illustrate:

<p src="superP">blah, blah</p>

Now I want to insert a new <p> in ODF. Do we simply say that an 
application can use the roundtripping metadata, without saying how, to 
create more content that can be mapped to the foreign format?

Being mindful that the average user may not even be aware of the 
different element types in either the foreign format or in ODF.

I still think this is am important use case but I am not sure if we 
should say anything about the new content in ODF or simply leave that up 
to implementers.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

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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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