Re: [office-metadata] Content tagging

[Bruce D'Arcus <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us>]

On Jun 21, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote:

> 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?

No, I think styling is beyond our scope. I think the tagging thing is 
in fact the same use case the rdf/a and micro-formats folks are dealing 
with: defining document content as metadata. So being able to tag a 
name as an author, etc.

We have talked about styles as a potentially smart implementation 
mechanism, but that's another issue.

Also, my sense based on what Gary earlier said is the LegalXML people 
simply wanted lists to be able to be children of paragraphs. This is 
another one of those structural problems (like captions) I noted on the 
TC list. It makes no sense that ODF and XHTML 1 don't allow stuff like 
blockquotes and lists to be children of paragraphs. But I see that as 
out of scope.

Bruce