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Mike Spreitzer wrote: > > What about the list of authors of a scholarly paper? Isn't that metadata for which order > matters? Think of it from a programming language perspective: class doc: title: string published: date authors: list of string text: list of (para|list|img) The authors property is unordered with respect to the other properties but its domain is ordered. The *list of authors* is metadata for the doc object. In grove land we allow a single, particular property to be labeled as the content property. In this case it would be the "text:" property. In a language like Python, you would navigate "regular (metadata)" properties like this: doc.publisher.address.street and content properties like this: doc[5][3][2][4] In the former, the name is significant. In the latter the position is significant. All of this is explained at: http://www.prescod.net/groves/shorttut -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." --Lily Tomlin xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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