| Nonetheless, more sophisticated Dublin Core applications (by publishers,
| libraries, and others) will require means for specifying sub-element
| structure as well as extensions. Such substructure needs to be developed
| and specified formally and registered.
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| Possible qualifiers:
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| SCHEME
| TYPE
| ROLE
| Enumerated values of some elements
| FLAGS
I get the point, but the wording is confusing. By substructure I
would expect to be meant subelements; the items above are qualifiers
(in SGMLspeak, attributes) on elements that have no subelements.
Were there to be subelements, those subelements could have
qualifiers, too. Perhaps some rewording is in order?
On the issue, I do not see any difference between enumerated
values and flags. And I'm puzzled by how I could hope to reduce
a "more sophisticated application" (how suavely put, Stu) to
a "canonical representation" if my sophisticated qualifiers
aren't allowed in the canonical representation. Ideas, anyone?
Regards,
Terry Allen Fujitsu Software Corp. [log in to unmask]
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