Re: Intentions of XMP

At 21:49 26/09/2002 +0300, Patrick Stickler wrote:

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> >         Perhaps a clearer, more mnemonic way to ask this question
> >         would be, do the literal values of the following two properties
> >         mean the same thing to XMP applications? Would they be
> >         considered to carry equivalent semantics in both cases?
> >
> >         <xmp:CreateDate>2002-09-25T11:36:07Z</xmp:CreateDate>
> >         <dc:title>2002-09-25T11:36:07Z</dc:title>
>
>Oh dear, that's not the same question at all.  If we were going to ask
>Adobe, it would have been useful to agree the question first.
>
>         Oh come, now Brian. It precisely matches the structure
>         and semantics of the generic entailment.

I'd have preferred the question be asked in terms of neutral names as in 
the original:

   <a> <b> "foo" .
   <c> <d> "foo" .

As expressed, knowledge about the properties you have picked, built into 
XMP may have influenced the answer.  I'm also not at all happy with the 
accompanying words.

Brian