Re: [office-metadata] fields proposal

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

Hi Florian,

we are already able to span across paragraph boundaries using 
text:bookmark-start and text:bookmark-end and adding RDF statements to them.

Bests,
Svante



Florian Reuter wrote:
> Hi Burce,
>
> wrt. to interop with other fields I suggest to also add a
> text-meta-field-start and text-meta-field-end encoding alternative to be able to span fields accross paragraph
> boundaries.
>
>
>
> ~Florian
>
>
>   
>>>> "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com> 03/23/07 4:45 PM >>>
>>>>         
> To preview the point of view I've come to on fields so that we  
> hopefully can be fairly efficient with discussing it next week, my  
> position is:
>
> 1) even if I have a dedicated citation field, the generic field  
> should still be adequate to implement my use case
>
> 2) a new generic metadata field -- what we now call text:meta-field  
> -- should not use the xml:id + RDF/XML approach to encoding the basic  
> logic of fields; rather, the URI(s) for the subject(s) it references  
> should be included in the field (in content).
>
> 3) if we require a URI (and allow optional parameters), we should  
> allow multiple URIs
>
> For this reason, I propose that rather than include the meta  
> attributes on the text:meta-field element, we add child elements to  
> contain them. Something like:
>
> ===
>
> text-meta-field = element text:meta-field { text-meta-field-source,  
> text-meta-field-body, text-meta-field-type? }
>
> # the value for this attribute can be used to match an rdf:type value  
> in the meta manifest
> text-meta-field-type = attribute text:meta-field-type { xsd:anyURI }
>
> text-meta-field-source = element text:meta-field-source { text:meta- 
> field-reference+ }
>
> # need to figure out parameters here
> text:meta-field-reference = element text:meta-reference { attribute  
> meta:resource { xsd:anyURI }}
>
> # can hold any ODF text content for rendering
> text-meta-field-body = element text:meta-field-body { ODFText }
>
> ===
>
> A full example (minus parameters):
>
> <text:meta-field text:meta-field-type="http://odf.org/Citation";>
>    <text:meta-field-source>
>      <text:meta-reference meta:resource="http://ex.net/1"/>
>      <text:meta-reference meta:resource="http://ex.net/2"/>
>    </text:meta-field-source>
>    <text:meta-body>
>       (Doe, 1999; Smith 2000)
>    </text:meta-body>
> </text:meta-field>
>
> Another example:
>
> <text:meta-field text:meta-field-type="http://odf.org/Contact";>
>    <text:meta-field-source>
>      <text:meta-reference meta:resource="http://ex.net/1"/>
>    </text:meta-field-source>
>    <text:meta-body>
>       Jane Doe
>    </text:meta-body>
> </text:meta-field>
>
> For citations, the parameters could be a mix of things:
>
> a) a generic style attribute of some sort could go a long way to  
> configuring basic presentation
> b) I'd need dedicate attributes for some details
>
> Example:
>
>      <text:meta-reference
> 	meta:resource="http://ex.net/2";
> 	cite:pages="23"
> 	text:meta-style="http://citation.org/short-form"/>
>
> I could see certain variations of the basic goal here.
>
> Bruce
>
>   

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