[eml-dev] [Bug 2079] - Move project element to top-level

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------- Additional Comments From peter.mccartney at asu.edu  2005-08-24 14:51 -------
I dont object as i think this would be a backward-compatible change. However, 
i think it's a patch to what is really desired - to be able to manage and 
exchange metadata in more atomic units than whole eml documents. I can easily 
forsee similar requests to treat spatial reference, party, attributes, etc as 
"root" elements (they arent really root, are they?). I think we need to begin 
some longer term thinking about eliminating the <eml> tag itself which would 
let content for each xsd file in eml potentially be a root element.  
 
If we continued to support the eml tag but just agreed it was ok to make xml 
documents that validate only to eml-project or eml-party, I think even that is 
technically still backwards compatible.