Re: [office-metadata] Editing files post metadata

[Bernd Schuster <schuster@mskgmbh.com>]

Bruce D'Arcus schrieb:

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>> To solve this task, some information is not stored as a single XML
>> element, but as separate empty elements to denote the start and end
>> position of the information in the text. This avoids problems with
>> nesting of XML elements, but of cause makes it much more difficult to
>> get the text that actually carries the information. It therefore seems
>> to be no option for metadata. Anyway, if we already require that the
>> text that carries metadata is element content, then we should at least
>> provide the option to split it over several elements instead of
>> requiring that it is stored in a single one.
>
> I think I see the problem here. For sake of argument, what if we 
> removed the option to use the RDFa short-hand convention?
>
> In other words, this would be not allowed:
>
> <p about="http;//ex.net/1">
>   <span property="dc:title">Title</span>
> </p>
>
> Instead, we would require that subjects always be attached to the 
> property:
>
> <p>
>   <span about="http://ex.net/1"; property="dc:title">Title</span>
> </p>
>
> Would that help? I'm not saying it solves problems of nested content 
> within that span necessarily, but is it a start?
>
> It would be more verbose, mind you.
>
> Bruce
Bruce,
I would appreciate directly binding the about attribute to all of its 
properties as you did in your second example, because I expected 
conflicts in mangling the "content hierarchy" with the "metadata hierarchy".
This approach makes RDFa much more attractive to me.

Bernd

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