Re: [office-metadata] Fields question

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Bruce,

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

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> On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - 
> Hamburg wrote:
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>>> That is that a field per se really has no semantics.
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>> I'm not sure. The fields that we have already in ODF specify what 
>> content is supplied, for instance the current date, the author of a 
>> document, the value of a variable, or the value of a "field" in a 
>> database table.
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> Correct. There are semantics in existing ODF fields, but ODF has no 
> generic fields, which is what this metadata field is. But ...
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>> The new metadata is somehow different, because here the ODF 
>> specification itself will not specify what the content will be. So I 
>> think it would be okay to say that it per se has no semantics.
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>
> ... we can still identify the general semantics. For example, we could 
> say:
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> The metadata field contains one or more references to resource 
> descriptions, and may contain optional parameters as namespaced 
> attributes. The target object shall be represented as an IRI.
>
> It's simple, and it's clear.
>
Ah, ok, sorry for having been dense. Sure.

I assume that Michael's suggestion that we use the datapilot (and other 
field) behavior of preserving content on save is acceptable?

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

> That's my preference, irrespective of specific encoding suggestions.
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> Bruce
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