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Subject: Re: [office-metadata] Suggested Changes on the Metadata proposal


On 6/28/07, marbux <marbux@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/27/07, Svante Schubert <Svante.Schubert@sun.com> wrote:
> > Greetings!
> >
> > IX) Dropping paragraph about preserved content of text:meta-field
> >
> > Asked to drop the following section:
> > "The generated content of a <text:meta-field> element SHALL be preserved
> > upon each "save" operation to facilitate use of a document with an
> > application that does not support generation of content from metadata."
> >
> > As the text:meta-field chapter will be part of the field chapter of the
> > main spec, there exist already some default behavior for fields.
> > e.g. "The content of the element is the textual representation of the
> > current field value as it would be displayed or printed."
> >
> > It questionable we need a special preservation application behavior for
> > text:meta-field.
>
> The language you suggest dropping includes a mandatory requirement of
> metadata preservation. But the language you quote from the text:meta-field
> chapter includes no such mandatory requirement. Doing away with metadata
> preservation requirements seems to be the unifying theme of your post.

I'm afraid you're misunderstanding here. This is about the displayed
content of the field; not any RDF/XML metadata that might be
associated with it.

OTOH, I don't think preservation of xml:id attributes can be optional,
nor is there any sound technical reason why they should be.

Bruce


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