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I usually avoid the distinction unless forced otherwise by a tool or framework, because it often limits people's imagined use of information. XML itself says nothing about this, which is good IMO. What you describe in your second scenario looks a bit like RDF-XML... where the structure of the data has about-ness implications. - Chris -----Original Message----- From: Gustaf Liljegren [mailto:gustaf.liljegren@b...] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 12:18 PM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: Is an element's name metadata? I've heard some people say that the markup is by itself metadata, that an element's name is metadata, because it describes the element's content: <reporter> <-- This is metadata John Smith <-- This is data </reporter> Isn't this wrong? Comparing to what I learned from Dublin Core, metadata is data too. It's not just the name of a property. I'd say it's the element's context that decides whether <reporter> is a data or a metadata element. <reporter> <-- This is just the name of a property John Smith <-- This may be metadata, depending on the element's context </reporter> Is this the right way to think about metadata in XML? Gustaf ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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