Fwd: [sw-discussion] Smart Tags in Openoffice Writer

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

one my replies ...

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> Date: September 1, 2006 10:16:17 AM EDT
> To: dev@sw.openoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [sw-discussion] Smart Tags in Openoffice Writer
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> Also ...
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> On Sep 1, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Jakob Lechner wrote:
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>> 8.  For a more detailed description of the mentioned interface and the
>>     architecture of the smarttag classes have a look at our UML 
>> diagram
>>     in the attachments.
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> Seems they got stripped.  And ...
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>>     The smarttag implementation consists of three parts:
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>> [...]
>>     2. Xml smarttag classes that process xml files, provide the
>>         recognize function and execute the defined actions.
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> For example, on this, we're not yet settled on a specific proposal, 
> but what I am advocating is that we provide an extensible metadata 
> system like Adobe's XMP. So there would be a common model for metadata 
> with some bundled properties. Users and developers could then extend 
> it.
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> The advantage that this has for these sorts of solutions is that we 
> can think of a generic metadata API and a serialization that works 
> across ODF applications, without need for any particular processing 
> logic.
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> The programming becomes simpler, and the files are more portable.
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> I think this has clear advantages over an MS-like approach.
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> Bruce
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