Editing files post metadata

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

I think, possibly incorrectly, that I understand at least one of the 
issues that Svante has been trying to raise.

Assume that a user get a file that has already had metadata attached to 
the content and in the process of editing that file, splits the content 
that was the marked as having metadata?

I think that is what Svante was suggesting when he said asked about the 
user that has no metadata plugin and is editing the file.

To some degree I think all the examples that have been discussed presume 
that metadata is being attached to relatively small snippets of content 
that are unlikely to be split in later editing.

Note there is no disagreement that we should be using standard RDF or 
that and RDFa-like mechanism should not be used when applicable.

The question I understand that is being asked by Svante is a more subtle 
one about post imposition of metadata editing.

I am not entirely sure that there is a solution that can handle every 
post-imposition of metadata editing issue but I think it is worth 
discussing. Even if the solution is to simply warn the user that 
metadata has been attached to the content that is being edited.

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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