Re: [office-metadata] "Logical/abstract" vs. "physical" representation

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Bruce

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> 
> 
> I guess the only point of debate here would be that the "or location of 
> the package" option might be too fragile to be useful, breaking 
> object-subject references whenever a file path changes.
> 
> E.g. we might require a URI for the document. Such a requirement would 
> only attach to 1.2 compliant applications I guess (ones that support the 
> basics of the new metadata system), which would not be onerous.

To be honest, I don't know whether one should really require that all 
documents get a base IRI different than the document location. I suggest 
we again leave it up the the implementations to provide such a base IRI 
when required.

Michael

> 
>> So, what is missing (except a detailed proposal by which attribute the 
>> base IRI may be defined in the manifest)?
> 
> See above. Not sure if there's anyhing else to resolve.
> 
> Bruce
> 


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