So, will the legacy <text:bibliography-mark> tag be preserved or not in the OpenOffice Writer ?
--- Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The ODF TC has in principle approved enhanced metadata support [1] > for > ODF 1.2. This is fantastically cool stuff, and gives ODF: > > 1. a simple, flexible, and extensible data model (RDF) > 2. the ability to use it to describe not just the document, but > pieces > within the document (tables, images, etc.), including ... > 3. a new generic field > > WRT to implementing it in OOo, some suggested reading: > > <http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xtech05/papers/04-01-04/> > <http://librdf.org/> > > Redland seems to have the characteristics that would be good for OOo: > > flexible licensing, builds as C++, can use expat or libxml as the xml > > parser, support for contexts (allows named graphs), and it's mature. > > There are also mature libraries in Java as well, but I'm assuming > that'd > be less ideal given OOo's C++ base. > > So upon loading an ODF 1.2 metadata-enhanced file, OOo would just > load > each RDF file into an in-memory model as a subgraph, work with the > data > as needed using the Redland APIs, and then write it back out on save. > > Because of the context support, Redland can track which file to write > > which statements to. > > So, for example, I imagine citation support would use the new generic > > text:meta-field and deal with two subgraphs: one for the field per se > > (written to "citations.rdf"), and the other for the bibliographic > source > metadata ("bibliography.rdf"). > > Anyway, just some ideas ... > > Bruce > > [1] > <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/24327/ODF-Metadata-Proposal.pdf> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
