Re: Silva export and metadata

Luthiger Stoll Benno wrote:
> Dear developers
> 
> One behaviour we stumbled over recently is that in a Silva export the actual value of metadata is sticked to the documents (and objects) exported. This leads to unexpected results with acquired metadata values when the objects are imported in a different context. Let's imagine a layout whose colours are defined by a metadata value. Now if we export a document from an environment characterized by a blue colour and imported in a red environment, most probably we expect the imported document to be displayed in a red environment too. However, as the formerly acquired metadata value for the colour (blue) now is sticked to the document, the document's new display colour is still blue.
> 
> How do you handle this behaviour? Is this a feature or a bug?

I don't think it's a bug per se, because if we export a subtree which 
has only acquired metadata, and import it somewhere else, it may be that 
we want to keep the original metadata, instead of changing it to that of 
the new context. Having said that, I can definitely see the use case 
where you would want to do just exactly that. Maybe the export should 
have an option 'export acquired metadata', or something similar.

eric