[xtm-wg] ISO 11179 attributes for XTM?

[Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com>]

I've been rattling the loose bolts in my skull lately over the idea
of defining the ISO 11179 attributes for XTM so that it can fit into
a wider framework of metadata standards. This is obviously complicated
by the fact that XTM (and of course ISO 13250) isn't simply a metadata
standard. But I've never let reality stop me from thinking.

Terry Allen based the original OASIS RegRep project on ISO 11179, and
Dublin Core certainly is. A current Dublin Core I'm working on (an XTM-
related project, actually) brought this idea to light.

Anybody -- how difficult would this be? Sounds relatively trivial,
and it could be an add-on DTD module, used only when needed (really
only as a formalism to guide application developers in many cases,
just as it is with Dublin Core).

Murray

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Murray Altheim                            <mailto:altheim&#x40;eng.sun.com>
XML Technology Center
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      The rice leaves in the garden
      Rustle in the autumn wind
      That blows through my reed hut.  -- Minamoto no Tsunenobu

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