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Subject: Re: [office] proposal to enhance annotations


Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>> Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote:
>>
>>> I want to propose to enhance the annotations.
>>> In ODF 1.1 annotations are inserted at a certain position in the 
>>> document. Thus, a certain document position is annotated by the 
>>> annotation. You can't express, that a certain annotation annotates a 
>>> certain part of the document.
>>
>> Have you looked at the newly-approved metadata proposal?
>>
>> You could do what you want using bookmarks + metadata, though that may 
>> not be the best idea. In any case, I'd hope possible changes here 
>> would be consistent with the new metadata stuff.
>>
> I'm aware of the metadata proposal.
> 
> But, I don't want to misuse metadata to introduce a new feature for 
> annotations.

That's fine; just make sure metadata can work with it, since I could 
easily imagine metadata being useful for annotations.

It would require that an xml:id can be attached to the range, just as 
you can with bookmarks.

Bruce


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