Re: [office-metadata] Applying metadata on XForms (earlier Microsoft's Doug Mahugh on custom metadata)

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

On May 29, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Svante Schubert wrote:

> Problems using metadata with RDF:
> The form control (e.g. field) even when identified by m:about/ 
> m:propert or xml:id, does not contain the content (only a binding)
> There is no way to bind RDF metadata directly to the XML instance,  
> as usually a given schema for the XML instance does not allow  
> xml:id  or m:about / m:property or any other RDF binding mechanism
> Even if we would solve the binding problem (e.g. by defining to add  
> the xml:id on the draw controls representing the data in the gui) I  
> am not aware of an universal way to generate an RDF output stream  
> from arbitrary XML instances (e.g. UBL XML to UBL RDF)

Chimezie Ogbuji has argued the best way to deal with RDF and XForms  
is to use a non-RDF XML intermediate format (because you know it is  
stable WRT to XML) and just map in and out of it.

GRDDL might even be appropriate?

Bruce