[silva-dev] Silva export and metadata

[kit BLAKE]

2006/8/16, eric casteleijn <eric at infrae.com>:
> 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.

Maybe the import should have an option: restore acquired metadata

Then you're covered. All the items in the export have the 'correct'
metdata. If you're importing a subtree, you probably want the metadata
acquisition to be restored too.
kit


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