RE: WOFF and extended metadata

"Levantovsky, Vladimir" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.fonts
Message-ID <7534F85A589E654EB1E44E5CFDC19E3D03F20FEEAE@wob-email-01.agfamonotype.org>
On Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:05 PM Tal Leming wrote:
> 
> On Jun 8, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:
> 
> > I would like to express my personal preference for option (b) for the
> purposes of localization of metadata extensions.
> 
> Just to clarify what we are talking about...
> 
> Was the proposal for localized extension blocks? Like this:
> 
> 	<metadata version="1.0">
> 		<uniqueid id="lalala.1.0" />
> 		<license url="http://lalala.com">
> 			<text lang="en">A license goes here.</text>
>         		<text lang="fr">Un permis va ici.</text>
> 		</license>
> 		...
> 		<extensions lang="en">
> 			...
> 		</extensions>
> 		<extensions lang="fr">
> 			...
> 		</extensions>
> 	</metadata>
> 

Yes, I believe this is the case. Only extension blocks would require matching key/value pairs, the main part of the metadata has all elements explicitly defined so there is no matching there and the localization of each value is straightforward.

Thank you,
Vlad
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