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I usually avoid the distinction unless forced
otherwise by a tool or framework, because it often
limits people's imagined use of information.
XML itself says nothing about this, which is good IMO.
What you describe in your second scenario looks a bit like
RDF-XML... where the structure of the data has
about-ness implications.
- Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Gustaf Liljegren [mailto:gustaf.liljegren@bredband.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 12:18 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] Is an element's name metadata?
I've heard some people say that the markup is by itself metadata, that an
element's name is metadata, because it describes the element's content:
<reporter> <-- This is metadata
John Smith <-- This is data
</reporter>
Isn't this wrong? Comparing to what I learned from Dublin Core, metadata is
data too. It's not just the name of a property. I'd say it's the element's
context that decides whether <reporter> is a data or a metadata element.
<reporter> <-- This is just the name of a property
John Smith <-- This may be metadata, depending on the element's context
</reporter>
Is this the right way to think about metadata in XML?
Gustaf
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