Re: [office] Metadata Fields

[Michael Stahl <Michael.Stahl@Sun.COM>]

hi Patrick,

On 14/04/2009 02:36, Patrick Durusau wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> A new issue that I had not previously noted.
> 
> 6.5.1 – 6.5.19, inclusive. All the text in these sections refer to a 
> “document.” However, note that all these elements are children of 
> |<text:a>| 5.1.4, |<text:h>| 4.1.1, |<text:meta>| 5.1.5, 
> |<text:meta-field>| 6.5.19, |<text:p>| 4.1.2, |<text:ruby-base>| 5.4.1 
> and |<text:span>| 5.1.3 elements. None of which represent documents.

Yes, these field elements refer to the document that is being edited. 
Specifically, their  contents come from the similarly-named elements in 
"meta.xml".

> Could mean the document being edited, but then we would have to say that 
> all <text:initial-creator> elements, for instance, must have the same 
> value. Since that element may occur as a child of every <text:p> element.

In principle, yes, all such elements would have the same contents.
Except, for those that have the attribute text:fixed="true": these would 
have whatever content they had when the field was marked as fixed, which 
may well be different in different instances.

> Could mean that the metadata in question applies to the elements specified.
> 
> This problem also occurs with 6.3.6 – 6.3.11, and 6.3.2 – 6.3.5, inclusive.
> 
> Options:
> 
> 1. Say that the metadata fields apply to their parent elements. (Would 
> we need to say something about displaying those fields?)
> 
> 2. Could change the schema to attach these fields to elements that 
> represent "documents." And to remove them from elements that don't. 
> (Note that this would not be backwards compatible.)
> 
> I don't have a default position to suggest. I can't count the number of 
> times I have read this section and simply missed this issue.

Well, these fields are intended for _displaying_ information in the 
content of the document, where the "canonical" version of the information 
is already contained at a well-defined location (meta.xml). So imho we 
already have option (2.), and i don't really see a problem here.

> Apologies.
> 
> Hope everyone is at the start of a great week!
> 
> Patrick

regards,
michael

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