Roland,
Regarding point 1: The prohibition as you state it sound pretty draconian; seems like some of the people originally motivated OAI (eprints folks) would want mathML. Remind me again, is there a solution that allows things like mathML but forbid arbitrary other XML?
Carl
I've copied to Herbert Van de Somple because the MathML thing might be of concern to him also.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Schwaenzl
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> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:19 AM
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> Subject: Re: Public Comment on DC-simple XML Schema declaration within
> OAI
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>
> Dears,
>
> with us it's now the time for reports rather than development.
> I'll not be able to follow this discussion the coming week.
>
>
> Let me try to summarize, what i understand currently from the dc-xml
> discussion.
>
>
> 1. In OAi the use of dc:elements with the xml- simple
> dataType "string" will (continue to) be required in
> the mandatory part of OAi.
> It could be, that OAi allows a dataType extension by
> the xml:lang attribute.
>
> [In particular no mark-up from W3C's MathML or Ruby will be allowed in
> oai-dc records].
>
> 2. There are mixed views on (details of) requirements, design
> and coding
> for dcmi supported "plain-xml"-schemes.
>
>
> Please correct me on mistaken points.
>
>
> Best,
> rs
>
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