Hi all, List has been dead for awhile, so just a quick update.
David is away in the Outback for a long vacation. Before he left, he and I rattled some cages at Sun out of sheer frustration with the lack of communication we were getting about plans going forward. I've gotten a tentative response back today which is -- if not entirely reassuring -- at least suggests we're headed in the right direction.
In a nutshell, we need Sun to do some low-level changes to make it easy to do the things we want to do. Those changes are going to be made in the context of a more comprehensive OOo strategy to deal with embedded content. As Oliver Specht explained their perspective on this:
The outcome was that the bibliographic text field (the reference) will be imported into a generic field that provides a DOM tree containing anything inside of the bib-citation. Other in-paragraph content would also be loaded into such a field. The Writer doesn't need to know anything about the semantics of the contained elements. The data-to-service linkage that is necessary for the Writer to find the right service to manipulate the data has to be done using some kind of registry.
I think this is a good direction because it ties the fate of citation stuff to a larger effort at OOo. But that will take some broader planning and implementation work that will take time. It also cannot happen (or even be planned) before they finish with the 2.0 release.
I will also be working on a proposal to upgrade the file level support some more in OpenDocument. We already had the citation proposal accepted. We now need to figured out the bibliographic metadata picture and the styling issue.
More information when I have it, but one issue that we're going to have to return to is the format: whether it's MODS, or something else. I've grown a little uncomfortable with standardizing on MODS.
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