no need to retract your vote. DC may come up again as we reach a wider audience & get more review.
in the meantime, please everyone look over http://metalinks.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/metalinks/internetdraft/draft-bryan-metalink-13.html * Remove files, resources, verification container elements. * MIME type: application/metalink4+xml On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Bram Neijt<[email protected]> wrote: > > I like having a slim format, but that is just about keeping the MUST > elements and attributes to a minimum. > > Anthony, I'd be happy if you would veto this discussion by saying: let's > use these tags and be done with it. Dublin Core is not THAT important > and I hereby retract my vote for using it :D > > Bram > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 03:16 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: >> Nils wrote: >> > * There are a few DC related rfc. However they seem to be >> > "Informational". I don't know how this would affect metalink >> > standardization. >> >> I don't think it matters. First, XML itself is not an RFC, and we're using >> it. Second, we don't necessarily have to say that generators MUST use >> dublin core for metadata and clients SHOULD interpret it. We could just say >> in an *informational* section that metadata should use dublin core in the >> name of interoperability. >> >> Generators are free to use whatever metadata format they feel like using, as >> long as it uses its own namespace URI, and tags are put in the >> appropriate "extension points" allowed by the metalink RelaxNG schema; but >> they can't expect other programs to understand it in that case. >> >> > * Should there be a lot of DC elements that generators should use (as >> > opposed to other elements). How would we map the current set of >> > elements to DC elements? >> > * Can all of the current elements be easily mapped? Which elements >> > must stay? >> >> I don't have answers to this yet; but note that "all the current elements" >> in on-the-wild metalink files are using the old namespace URI. I don't >> think anyone has generated metalink files with the new namespace yet. >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
