- From: Jon Ferraiolo <jferraio@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:01:33 -0700
- To: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Cc: "'www-svg@w3.org'" <www-svg@w3.org>
Dave, The SVG working group feels that there is document-level metadata (e.g., author, copyright, etc.) and object-level metadata (e.g., child-of, barchar-label-for, etc.). Object-level metadata can also be expressed in structured form (i.e., something like RDF). It is for this reason that the SVG working group changed the SVG DTD with the June 29 spec to allow <metadata> elements attached to any SVG graphics or container element. Jon Ferraiolo SVG Editor Adobe Systems Incorporated At 10:52 AM 7/7/00 +0100, Dave J Woolley wrote: >> From: Jon Ferraiolo [SMTP:jferraio@Adobe.COM] >> >> This sounds like metadata to me. >> > [DJW:] It doesn't sound like meta data to me, it sounds more > like alt=, longdesc=, the text for acronyms, the body of object, > etc. in HTML, which are real data in alternative forms. > > > [DJW:] meta data is data about the document, rather than about > what the document is about. >
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