Hi, Am Freitag, den 01.09.2006, 10:09 -0400 schrieb Bruce D'Arcus: > [...]
> As a simple example, we at the bibliographic project desperately need > the new citation field implemented, and without that support, not only > can we not do anything useful with bibliographic features in OOo, but > interoperability with Word 2007 -- which is gaining citation support > similar to what we want in OOo -- will be quite difficult. If I > understand right from reading the latest Open XML spec, Microsoft is > implementing citation support using something like smart tags (I think > they call it "structured tags"?). It's really just a field with some > pointers to bibliographic source records, and the rendered content. (Our) Smart Tags are mostly for linking to external resources, not really for storing extra data (metadata) within the same document. Also, recognized Smart Tags are not document dependent, but universally valid for every document. > But more broadly, at the metadata sc we are really interested in > creative solutions to link content with custom metadata, which I think > is the primary use case for "smart tags." We consider the primary use case of smart tags to be to link words (that are recognized by an external library) in a document with actions provided by this library. The user usually doesn't add patterns manually, but another application provides the patterns. For example if you have an inventory system, it could register inventory IDs with OpenOffice and so have any documents containing inventory IDs be possible gateways to the inventory system. -- Jakob Lechner Research & Development Fabalabs Software GmbH Honauerstraße 4 A-4020 Linz Tel.: [+43] (70) 60 61 62 Fax: [+43] (70) 60 61 62-609 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.fabalabs.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
