Re: [office] Discussion Requested: ODF <dc:creator> conflicts

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Hi Dennis,

On 04/02/09 19:21, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> 1. WHY THE GUIDELINES ARE BETTER
> 
> It is important to cite the Guidelines for use in XML because what we are
> doing is using Dublin Core in XML (not RDF, the primary application of
> Dublin Core for the Semantic Web).  

My understanding is that these guidelines contain guidelines only for 
the schema design phase, but none for the phase at which instances using 
that schema are created or processed.

Take for instance the first three recommendation:

 > Recommendation 1. Implementors should base their XML applications on
 > XML Schemas [XMLSCHEMA] rather than XML DTDs.
 > Recommendation 2. Implementors should use XML Namespaces [XMLNS] to
 > uniquely identify DC elements, element refinements and encoding
 > schemes.
 > Recommendation 3. Implementors should encode properties as XML
 > elements and values as the content of those elements.

These are all recommendations we have followed for ODF when designing 
the ODF schema (well, we use RNG rather than XSD, but I think the main 
advice here is not use use DTDs).
Now, that we have the schema, no implementor of ODF ever has to care 
about these recommendations any longer. They are implemented in ODF 
itself already.

> 
> The DCMI XML Guidelines document makes sufficient reference to the semantics
> and other aspects of the Dublin Core Element Set 1.1 (and later ones), so it
> is an appropriate way to be specific about the ODF reliance on Dublin Core
> in elements like <dc:creator>.  

I don't think that a reference of a specific other document in a 
guidelines document is sufficient. If we want to specify the semantics 
of an element are those that DC defines, we have to reference the 
document that specifies these semantics.

Michael

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