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Re: Is an element's name metadata?


metadata reporter
Gustaf,

Given your use of a <reporter> element name here, I can see how one can
view the element name as data rather than metadata. 

Having said that, consider the following alternate representation:

<PersonDetails>
    <Name>John Smith</Name>
    <Profession>reporter</Profession>
    ...more elements here, perhaps address, etc....
</PersonDetails>

In which case "reporter" is data that is described by the metadata
"Profession".

You could also have (I am using a more descriptive element name here
than "reporter"):

<ReporterName>John Smith</ReporterName>

In which "ReporterName" is metadata that describes "John Smith".

So yes, there are multiple ways to think about it - it mostly depends on
how you represent things.

Kind Regards,
Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton


Gustaf Liljegren wrote:
> 
> I've heard some people say that the markup is by itself metadata, that an
> element's name is metadata, because it describes the element's content:
> 
> <reporter>    <-- This is metadata
> John Smith    <-- This is data
> </reporter>
> 
> Isn't this wrong? Comparing to what I learned from Dublin Core, metadata is
> data too. It's not just the name of a property. I'd say it's the element's
> context that decides whether <reporter> is a data or a metadata element.
> 
> <reporter>    <-- This is just the name of a property
> John Smith    <-- This may be metadata, depending on the element's context
> </reporter>
> 
> Is this the right way to think about metadata in XML?
> 
> Gustaf
> 
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