Re: [office-metadata] summarizing recent suggestions

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

On Feb 28, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - 
Hamburg wrote:

>> The above is a generalization of the citation field, adapted for the 
>> new metadata support. It is also similar to how MS does this, BTW. 
>> What I encode in two meta:link elements, they encode in a single dumb 
>> attribute (which would be really ugly to process with XML tools, 
>> BTW).
>
> Yes, I do understand that, and I have no objections to providing 
> additional information in the content. But since we have the option to 
> specify that as meta data, too, I would suggest that we look deeper 
> into that idea if we agreed on the remaining issues.

OK. I just thought you agreed that putting all the field logic (the 
resource URIs and parameters) outside the content may not be the best 
idea.

That existing fields in ODF don't contain that information in content 
is a function of the fact that those fields are really simple, and 
fixed. What we are providing here is a much more powerful -- custom -- 
field option, so it makes sense it will be a little more complex.

In any case, I'm happy to defer this decision until everything else is 
settled. Just so long as my use case can be adequately supported in 
1.2.

Bruce