Re: [office-metadata] Export / Import of metadata

[Svante Schubert <Svante.Schubert@Sun.COM>]

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
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> On Mar 1, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Svante Schubert wrote:
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>>>> So just to be clear, you are saying the default data-type for
>>>> in-content statements shall be plain text.
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>>> Right. As via xml:id the subtree is already specified.
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> ???
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> I don't understand how xml:id has anything to do with this question? 
> The subtree is specified as the content of the node which contains the 
> metadata attributes; right? 
> And there won't always be an xml:id in that context anyway.
>
The element with the xml:id specifies not only the element, but as well 
it's embraced XML nodeset, the XML subtree.
For example, if you give a table a xml:id and use the xml:id to create a 
RDF subject representing the table in RDF/XML, you can give RDF 
statements in RDF/XML about the whole table. The table with all it's 
sub-elements is described as one, not only the string of it's containing 
text nodes as it would occur by default - what I suggest - when using RDFa.