Re: [opendocument-users] OpenOffice as vehicle for industry standards

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

This is an interesting topic.  The
ODF TC is currently discussing metadata enhancements to ODF which may make
things like this a lot simpler.  There is nothing set in stone at
this point, but one idea I've been thinking about is whether we can do
interesting things by allowing ODF document templates to have metadata
annotations associated with named styles.  These metadata annotations
then get associated with content that uses these styles and that provides
a hint to an intelligent editor, or an external transformation engine (like
XSTL), on how to map the contents of the ODF document into some other schema,
like LegalXML or whatever.

-Rob

"Mark L. Reynolds" <mark.reynolds@simplifile.com>
wrote on 03/03/2006 01:05:54 AM:

> I am sitting in a hotel room at a conference where we are discussing
> xml standards for three instances of transmitting documents over the
> internet.  One is the MISMO (www.mismo.org) standard for electronic
> mortgages, another is PRIA (www.pria.us) which describes a standard
> for documents to be submitted electronically to a county recorder
to
> be recorded and the third (www.legalxml.org) describes a standard
> for legal documents including electronic submissions to courts.
> Today there has been discussion about whether
documents for these 
> standards should best be xml, xhtml or intelligent pdf.  
> My question is this.  Could OpenDocument
fill the role of 
> standardizing the packaging of documents for these purposes 
> (specifically including an image of a document with both data fields
> and metadata)?  And if it could, should it?
> Your input will be greatly appreciated. 
> Mark