metadata != props

From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 12:07:50 EDT

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    At 11:25 AM 5/16/02 -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    >I'm not working on this right now. My metadata props work on a document
    >level.

    Since this is the developer list, a quick terminology reminder. [1]

    As mentioned previously, I think it's very important for developers to
    maintain a metadata vs. PROPS distinction:

      http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/0384.html
      http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/0385.html

    We now have metadata (mostly user-visible, mostly for indexing purposes).
    Tomas and I claim that the file format *also* needs document-level PROPS
    which which work as defaults for lower-level PROPS.

    In short, metadata is what goes in the new dialog. PROPS don't.

    Paul

    [1] If this were the user list, I wouldn't quibble about this at all. As
    far as users are concerned, there *are* only one kind of file-level
    properties: the ones they see in the File Properties dialog.

    I just want to make sure that anyone doing development remembers the
    metadata vs. PROPS distinction. Nobody else needs to know or care.

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