Dirk van Gulik wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Weibel,Stu wrote:
>
> > the specification is silent on the issue of element sequence. As it
> > should be.
>
> It might be to silent IMHO, I would not mind something like this
> at all.
>
> Sequence/Ordering
>
> No sematics or meaning is to be attached or conveyed by the order
> in which the elements are presented, stored or transmited. Within
> a record all elements equal and the values represent ortogonal
> pieces of information about the resource described.
>
> Although specific implementation framework, syntaxes and encodings
> might be able to convey information with the element sequence and
> structure; the application SHOULD not rely on this for the Dublin
> CORE atributed set.
>
> Just to stamp it out early; because I for one would be very tempted
> to build in implicit ordering and come to expect on it easily.
Please be very careful with the wording of this. A lot of people are using
ordering within an HTML file to indicate *grouping*. This is because
HTML's META element offers no proper way of doing grouping. An example:
<meta name=DC.Creator" content="Eve">
<meta name=DC.Creator.Role" content="FirstWoman">
<meta name=DC.Creator" content="Adam">
<meta name=DC.Creator.Role" content="FirstMan">
Some folks say that you mustn't rely on this order being preserved, as some
products mangle it. I think that Word was cited as an example.
The only other way to do this was referred to in Helsinki as "the page 78
kludge" (or do I mean bodge?), named after page 78 of the AHDS document:
<meta name=DC.Creator.1" content="Eve">
<meta name=DC.Creator.Role.1" content="FirstWoman">
<meta name=DC.Creator.2" content="Adam">
<meta name=DC.Creator.Role.2" content="FirstMan">
People are doing their best with limited tools. Once Nirvana (I mean RDF)
has arrived, we'll all walk on cotton-wool clouds and play the harp. In
the interim, let's not mess things up for implementors.
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