Claes at work
Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:19:33 -0800
On 11/18/06, Michael Burschik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What about saving Dublin core metadata as extended attributes?
I think there is some value in doing so, but metadata of that kind (closely related to the file wherever it goes) is probably best encoded in the file itself, if its fileformat supports it. For example OpenDocument supports Dublin core, and applications writing OpenDocument could set Dublin core attributes as xattrs on the file when saving as a service for indexers etc, but since they are already persisted in the file, it would be somewhat redundant. Should we suggest that Dublin core attributes are stored as xattrs in a "dc" namespace, if they are available? Claes _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg