Hi Mathias,
On Jun 8, 2007, at 6:42 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote:
I thought that's what we have already agreed upon,
Just wanted to be sure, since things have evolved since our previous
discussions :-)
I also wanted to make clear that text:meta-field can solve some of
these interoperability problems.
moreover my impression was that besides the general meta-field stuff
there will be
an explicit support for citations.
It depends what you mean by "explicit support for citations." If you
mean in code, then sure.
If, OTOH, you are talking about the ODF citation field Daniel Vogelheim
and I designed, then no.
In talking about this with the metadata subcommittee, we have come to
the conclusion this is not a good idea. The text:meta-field is
sufficient to implement robust citation support, and introducing
another field for that means it is less likely to be supported in
different ODF implementations.
This is already a problem with the existing bibliographic support,
where AFAIK, only OOo supports it. KOffice apparently just throws out
the fields IIRC.
With text:meta-field, we have a very high likelihood of it being widely
implemented, at least for display.
As for the potential issue of a lack of standard approach to doing
citations, we have discussed the idea for the TC to issue informative
notes of sorts that demonstrate best practice for a given use case. So,
for example, we would issue one for citations. If it needed to be
folded into the ODF spec proper later, that could happen too. That
gives the flexibility of the generic field and metadata support, but
also guidelines for smooth interoperability.
This is my current understanding. The TC will be discussing the
metadata proposal starting on Monday, and I have told them we will
discuss the citation use case as a part of that discussion. So we'll
resolve it for sure then.
Bruce
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