How about javax.xml.namespace.QName as keys? ----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Jukka Zitting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 2:18 AM > To: tika-dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Metadata Namespaces > > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > That sounds reasonable, except I'm weary of RDF and all the > underpinnings > > required, but if we are just using the URI stuff than maybe it won't be > so > > bad. One of things I really like about Tika is it is lightweight. > > Agreed. In Tika I'd only use the namespace URIs as plain strings with > no extra machinery around them. > > Another alternative that I like is forget the idea of explicit > namespaces and simply use URIs as the metadata keys. This would be > perfectly in line with Dublin Core and would work reasonably well also > with RDF clients. As an added benefit we could adopt this approach by > simply modifying a few constants. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting
