[Qgis-developer] XML Metadata editor Plugin - FYI

[Alex Mandel]

Unfortunately our team doesn't have the skill or time to learn C++, but
I think the concept could be reworked at some point. We are really
laying the groundwork for how the plugin will work and implementing as
much of that as we can.

As for standards, we have an idea for a window that you can load 2 xml
schema's into and then do a 1 by 1 mapping of tags in order to setup a
translation between them. This will allow for people to use whatever
standard they want in the end.

Alex


Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thursday 05 February 2009 13:08:21 Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> Tim Sutton ha scritto:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> A metadata plugin would be great - builing it directly into QGIS would
>>> be even better! This is the kind of cross cutting functionality that
>>> everybody wants and needs, and that would be great to be able to
>>> access via the QGIS core API.  With it added to the api other plugin
>>> writers coulld make good use of the metadata too. Of course that would
>>> prbably mean doing your work in C++ - not sure if you are up for that.
>> Metadata standards often vary among agencies, so ease of customization
>> is a necessity. I think a python plugin is more flexible and more
>> appropriate in this context.
>> All the best.
>> pc
> 
> I dont agree - the api can return a standard document which can be transformed 
> using xslt by plugins that need a different representation. Having the metadata 
> in the core means we can show it as part of standard vector and raster 
> properties tabs.
> 
> Of course all this is moot if the authors are only interested in a python 
> implementation.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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