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Subject: ODF 1.2 metadata for embedded documents
Dear TC members, During implementing the ODF 1.2 metadata feature in OpenOffice.org, we faced some metadata scenarios, which draw our attention back to the metadata specification of ODF 1.2. As general overview of this feature we created a task [1] and a wiki [2] to list all relevant user scenarios. But the most interesting and releveant scenario is the following: It is possible to embed an ODF document within an ODF document. For instance to embed a spreadsheet document within an text document and later separate or remove the embedded document from the host document again. Both documents might have metadata before merging and should still have their metadata sets after splitting the documents. Even more it is preferable that the metadata RDF files from the embedded documents are split up according to their usage, when the ODF documents are being separated. We came to the conclusion that this scenario can much easier be implemented if every embedded ODF document has its own metadata manfiest (ie. manifest.rdf), located in the directory of the embedded document (aside its content.xml). This would help us to handle a metadata repository separately for every embedded document, allowing us to split the metadata easily as required by the scenario above. We further suggest, that the manifest.rdf files of the embedded documents are NOT linked by the host document manifest.rdf - as linking is not an explicit RDF/XML feature - but are defined by their entry in the manifest.xml of the ODF package. If you would agree on this, I would prepare are wording for the ODF specification. Regards, Svante [1] http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=91562 [2] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/Metadata_Support#Handling_of_metadata_on_editing.2Fupdating_an_text_document -- Sun Microsystems GmbH Svante Schubert Nagelsweg 55 Software Engineer 20097 Hamburg StarOffice / OpenOffice.org Development Germany Phone: +49(0)40 236 46 500 http://www.sun.com Svante.Schubert@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering
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