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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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