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Subject: Re: [office] Suggested ODF1.2 items
Florian, Florian Reuter wrote: >Hi Bruce, > >the problem here is that we need to be able to encode documents like > ><p><span/><field-start/><span/><p> ><p><span/><field-end/></p> > > > Did you mean: <p><span/><field-start/><span/></p> <p><span/><field-end/></p> Ah, are both <field-start> and <field-end> empty elements? To put it another way: What is the content that is being surrounded by the <field-*> tags? Hope you are having a great day! Patrick >~Florian > > > > >>>>Bruce D'Arcus <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us> 12/11/06 3:45 PM >>> >>>> >>>> >I never weighed in on this suggestion of Florian's, in part because it >relates to on-going discussions at the metadata SC, but since I recall >there's some discussion of these suggestions going on now-ish ... > >On Nov 20, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Florian Reuter wrote: > > > >>Fields: >>* enhance field support by introducing a <text:field-start/> and a >><text:field-end/> element to which metadata can be attached. >> >> > >I think before we get specific about that, I'd agree we need one (or >more) generic metadata fields. > >The start/end approach seems potentially dangerous to me (how do you >handle well-formedness if the field spans across the end of a content >node?), but my more important concern is that the field (or at least >one of them) consist of two distinct structures: structure and >presentation. E.g. Daniel Vogelheim and I settled on a structure like >this for the citation field: > >field > source > body > >If you're concerned about interop with OOXML, they also do something >similar (though encode all of the "source" in a single attribute, which >I think a bad design choice). > >Bruce > > > > > > > -- Patrick Durusau Patrick@Durusau.net Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
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