Jon Noring <jon@noring.name> writes:
In plain text documents, some sort of machine recognizable "plain text" syntax has to be developed -- it'd be quite simple, actually. I think those who advocate plain text should develop a "plain text" metadata system (such as one based on Dublin Core) to insert somewhere in the file.
I would suggest using YAML -- there are a number of applications for processing it, and it can be mapped to dublin core elements easily. The following is a complete YAML Dublin Core document: --- - title: <scalar> - creator: <scalar> - subject: <scalar> - description: <scalar> - publisher: <scalar> - contributor: <scalar> - date: <iso 8601> - type: <uri> - format: <mime-type> - identifier: <scalar> - source: <scalar> - language: <rfc-3066_iso639> - relation: <scalar> - coverage: <scalar> - rights: <scalar> This can easily be parsed, it's human readable and maps well to html/xml structures. b/ -- Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>, Banqwao, Thailand