Re: [office] Re: meta:date vs. dc:~ in OpenDocument v1.0

Hi David,

I will add this to our issue list document.

Michael

David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 22 August 2005 13:59, Besten, Jens wrote:
> 
>>Hello David,
>>
>>after reading the OpenDocument Specification I am lost at one point. I am a
>>technical writer for a software company in Cologne, Germany.
>>
>>My troubles deal with the meta:date Element/Attribute and the dc:date
>>Element.
>>
>>In schema line 669 (page 59) I read: <attribute name="meta:date"> so I think
>>"meta:date" is an attribute. But on page 120 I read "This element displays
>>the information from the <meta:date> element." . So suddenly meta:date is
>>referenced as an element. 
> 
> 
> meta:date is an attribute. There is a mistake in the paragraph that you quote, then.
> I am cc'ing the technical committee so that they note that this paragraph must be fixed.
> 
> 
>>And, completing the chaos, there is also - and 
>>perhaps more important - the <dc:date> - Element, so that meta-date appears
>>to be redundant.
> 
> 
> meta:date seems to be used inside the meta:template element, whereas dc:date
> is the much more generic "date of this document" value. I am not sure why 
> meta:template uses meta:date though, hopefully someone from the committee will know.
> 
> 
>>All in all a good job, we are thinking about joining the OpenDocument
>>movement.
> 
> 
> This is good to hear!
> 


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