Re: [office-metadata] Overlapping fields question

["Florian Reuter" <freuter@novell.com>]

Hi Patrick,

sorry for not beeing clear. What I'm asking for is not "overlapping fields". In fact fields should never overlap ;-) I'm
demanding that fields may containt a paragraph break.

To explain my objectives please let me give you a sample. Sometimes fields span accross paragraph boundaries, as in the
following sample

Description: _________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________

which when filled out lead to

Description: <field>Here should be a description.
Which is explained for precise in the following paragraphs.</field>

When encoded in ODF I'll look like this

<text:p>Description: <field-start/>Here should be a description.</text:p>
<text:p>Which is explained for precise in the following paragraphs.<field-end/></text:p>

So the basic problem is: What is when a field content contains a paragraph break. 

Fields itself should not be able to be nested. Just be able to span accross paragraph boundaries...

This is hard to validate i.e. speficy in the ODF schema, this is why Svante discourages the use of paragraph breaks
within a field content. I entirely understand his point of view.

However I'm aware of some applications which actually need paragraph-breaks in fields.

~Florian



>>> Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> 03/27/07 2:51 PM >>>
Florian,

I am trying to catch up on my email after three days of ISO meetings in 
Oslo.

Sorry but it isn't clear to me what "other fields" are in question that 
would need a text-meta-field-start/end element.

What "other fields" did you have in mind?

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
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