On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Peter Graham, RUL wrote:
> From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries
>
> Armin Weltin's note on the label conflict with reserved words allows me to
> advance again the thought of the metaelement, which among other things would
> allow a specification of the language of the elements. AW's suggestion of a
> specific DC tag for each element (e.g. "DC_Date") seems to me on the one hand
> more cumbersome and on the other hand less general. However I'm not as sure
> of my ground on this as I'd like to be and would welcome other comments. --pg
>
This is a problem for writing programs. Armin Weltin can use the variable
name DC_date in his program, and we can still use Date as our attribute
(besides, all attributes are repeatable anyway, and one would need a list
to keep them anyway).
I still think it is useful with human readable attributes.
Sigfrid
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