Clarifying text:meta-field problem [earlier"Groups - Metadata SC meeting added"]

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

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>
> On Apr 3, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote:
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>> I had gotten the impression that the RDF was doing to declare the 
>> semantics of the field, that is a generic field mechanism with a rule 
>> that whatever content is has is preserved on save so that a 
>> non-enabled application can see the data.
>
> No, we've had no resolution.
>
> We spent months solving the question of in-content literals, but I 
> think in-content resource references (e.g. text:meta-field) have 
> gotten less careful attention. And I actually think they're more 
> critical to this work.
>
> I think Svante and Florian understand what I've been saying (in part 
> as a result of some off-list discussion), but am not sure.
I can not speak for Florian, but I have to admit, I am not able to 
define your problem.
Could you give it a further try, telling me what problem can not 
currently be solved by our text:meta-field approach (e.g. using xml:id 
and RDF/XML)?

Svante