On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Tavin Cole wrote:

> > The idea that metadata can be sourced from more than one place is
> > dumb.
>
> What is the basis for saying that?  Centralizing metadata in one place is
> a matter of convenience or efficiency, not an edict of any kind.  You're
> the one who proposed putting date-redirect metadata in the key, while
> presumably other metadata would be in a control doc.

I can easily imagine a situation where you'd want to separate the
redirects and the (verbose; expensive) DMI into two files.

> > But you could still do it, and correlate by docname, no
> > problem.
>
> True.


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Mark Roberts | mjr at statesmean.com


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