Hi Duane,
Thanks for the write up. I read it
over, as well as the RDF slides Florian sent out earlier. Since I
might not be able to make the call tomorrow, I thought I'd send along my
questions in advance.
First, is the Dublin Core meta data really
located deterministically in existing files? Is this just the practice
of the current OO implementation? Or is it specified so? I
didn't see this called out in the spec.
The 1.0 OO spec, page 65, section 3.3 "Custom
Metadata" says: "In addition to the pre-defined metadata
elements, applications should also preserve any additional content found
inside the <office:meta> element. As there is no semantics specified
for such foreign content, applications need not process this information
other than to preserve it when editing the document." If
I'm reading this right, wouldn't this allow you to simply put the RDF within
the <office:meta> tag, allowing extensibility as well as backwards
compatibility? Nothing would need to be moved. What am I missing?
I'm a bit nervous with the idea of moving
the DC, and just leaving a "forwarding address" in the form of
IDREF. Do we have a sense of how transparent this would be for existing
processors? Not just the big OO/KOffice applications, but also the
small XSL stylesheets or simple SAX parsers that fill out the document
processing ecosystem with viewers, indexers, etc. I'd feel better
if someone could tell me that ID/IDREF processing is transparent among
the XML parsers in common use.
Regards,
-Rob
Duane Nickull <>
09/10/2005 05:25 PM
To
Florian Reuter <>
cc
Subject
Re: [office] Slides about OpenDocument
and meta data
I finished my action item and produced a first draft
of an idea for
supporting RDF and still being backwards compatible with DC and other
metadata. Sorry for the Word doc ;-)
TTYL (monday CC).
Duane
Florian Reuter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> please find attached some slides about OpenDocument and meta data.
I
> post these slides as a preparation for the meeting at Monday.
>
> Best regards and nice weekend,
>
> Florian
>
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