Fields question

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings,

Something to think about between now and our meeting.

Curious about the question of the "semantics" of a field.

I am assuming that a field is something that has content supplied based 
upon some mechanism.

That is that a field per se really has no semantics.

Assuming that we attach metadata to a field, then the field has content 
if there is a plugin that processes the metadata and supplies the 
content. What semantics that has is really up to the metadata and its 
plugin.

Reasoning that we could do something similar to what is done with data 
pilot. If a field has been filled by an ODF application with the 
appropriate metadata plugin, then that information persists even if the 
document is opened with an ODF application that does not have the 
appropriate plugin. Thinking that takes care of the cases where a user 
may not have the appropriate plugin.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
Patrick@Durusau.net
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005

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