Re: [office-metadata] Backward compatibility mechanism (achieved by thepreserving of information not understood)

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Not having an metadata implementation
proposal in front of us , just use cases,  how sure are we that the
ultimate implementation will allow us to distinguish metadata from foreign
content?   I guess we should just say that this use case merely motivates
a requirement that all metadata be preserved, and that the implications
for ODF 1.0, section 1.5, if any, will fall out of the implementation phase
of this subcommittee.

-Rob

Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote
on 06/28/2006 10:32:24 AM:

> Rob,
> 
> Ah, a small light flickers! ;-)
> 
> OK, but in the context of the metadata SC, we would want to have a
use 
> case where *all* metadata MUST be preserved for the reasons you mention.
> The question of preserving other foreign content being beyond our
> purview, although one that we can raise in the TC with such a use
case 
> for metadata.
> 
> Since I did not understand it, I did not include it in the rough draft.
> 
> I will try to work up something by tomorrow (anyone else can jump
in as 
> well) for discussion for inclusion in a revision of the use cases
document.
>