Hi Bruce,
> OK, but "mark parts" to do what with them? To control data entry?
Depends. I've seen scripts doing at lot of things with the marked data ;-) Not really sure what your point is...
> I'm just unclear on what the distinction is between this field you are proposing and text:meta-field.
Hmm --- I see a clear difference between an RDF-based framework for metadata and "special" bookmarks. I guess when developing apps like Zotero developers will choose the RDF-based metadata framework. On the other hand when migrating OOXML and scripts to ODF they will use field-marks.
> So how would we -- or third-party devs -- know which one to use for which cases?
I think that the whole metadata framework speaks for itself and developers will use it when we make it powerfull and easy to use.
The main purpose of the field-mark is to get rid of the bookmark/WW-field mess we have out there... They are not even 0.000001% as powerfull as the RDF-based metadata framework ;-) [However they have their charm in easy migration!]
~Florian
>>> "Bruce D'Arcus"