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Subject: Re: [office] text:meta-field


On 10/30/07, Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> <snip>
> >> But the first question I would ask is for an example of a
> >> "multi-paragraph spanning" input field.
> >
> > Patrick, Florian's already posted an example. See top-of-thread.
> >
> Is Oliver's restating of it:
>
> > <p>XXX</p>
> > <new-input-field|new-meta-field>
> >     <field-prefix>AAA</field-prefix>
> >     <p>BBB</p>
> >     <p>CCC</p>
> >     <field-suffix>DDD</field-suffix>
> > </new-input-field|new-meta-field>
> > <p>ZZZ</p>
> Equivalent to Florian's example?
>
> I looked at Florian's example:
>
> > Sample:
> > <p>Comments: <text:meta-field-start/>This is a </p>
> > <p>two line comment<text:meta-field-end/></p>
> And it looks like an unnecessarily complicated markup model. Can say
> exactly what Florian wants to say but it isn't necessary to have
> overlapping paragraph (or other) elements to do it.
>
> Noting that with Oliver's solution, we preserve the ability of an
> application to simply render the text content of a paragraph.

Yeah, the more I think about it, the more this looks like the
territory for inline metadata. E.g. this is a case where you want to
tag the literal document content with some semantics. I always assumed
a field to be different.

> >> It isn't clear to me what a "multi-paragraph spanning" input field
> >> would look like?
> >>
> >> Particularly in a text:meta-field context.
> >>
> >> I understand what is meant by "multi-paragraph spanning" so I suppose
> >> where I stick is input field? Do you mean that the input field could
> >> generate content to replace part of the content of one paragraph, any
> >> number of other paragraphs and then part of the content of a
> >> concluding paragraph? (in continuous order)
> >
> > This is what's confusing to me, and it goes back to question I earlier
> > asked: what *is* a field?
> >
> Good question.

Yes, and perhaps one we finally need to answer ;-)

Bruce


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