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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks. I have updated all six of the Metadata node containerField tooltips, noting changed default and adding a corresponding warning.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoPlainText style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltips.html#MetadataString.containerField<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 summary="" width="94%" style='width:94.5%;margin-left:-.3pt;background:#99CCCC'><tr><td valign=top style='background:#EEFFEE;padding:.3pt .3pt .3pt .3pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a name=MetadataString.containerField></a><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltips.html#MetadataString.containerField" title="containerField is an XML attribute"><span style='mso-bookmark:"MetadataString\.containerField"'><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none'>containerField</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"MetadataString\.containerField"'></span></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="95%" style='width:95.18%;background:#EEFFEE;padding:.3pt .3pt .3pt .3pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none'>[containerField <a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltips.html#NMTOKEN" title="Name Token"><span style='color:blue'>type NMTOKEN</span></a> "metadata" is X3D3 default, "value" is X3D4 default]</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none'><br>containerField is a field-label prefix indicating this node's field relationship to its parent node, for example <Transform><Shape containerField='children'/></Transform>.<br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#447777;mso-ligatures:none'>Hint:</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none'> default containerField values for each node are correct in most cases, so the need to override default containerField values is rare.<br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#447777;mso-ligatures:none'>Hint:</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none'> set containerField="value" when part of a MetadataSet payload, otherwise use default value "metadata" when providing information about a parent node itself.<br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#EE5500;mso-ligatures:none'>Warning:</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none'> X3D3 default is 'metadata' while X3D4 default is 'value' in order to support terseness of MetadataSet collections in X3D4.<br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#EE5500;mso-ligatures:none'>Warning:</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none'> containerField attribute is only part of XML encoding for X3D scenes, and corresponds to the always-declared field names in the ClassicVRML and VRML97 file encodings.<br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#447777;mso-ligatures:none'>Hint:</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none'> USE node instances are allowed to have a containerField value that is different than the corresponding DEF declaration of that node.<br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#447777;mso-ligatures:none'>Hint:</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none'> X3D Scene Authoring Hints, containerField </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none'><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dSceneAuthoringHints.html#containerField" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dSceneAuthoringHints.html#containerField</span></a></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>all the best, Don<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br brutzman@nps.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Watkins 270, MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA +1.831.656.2149<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics https://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: x3d-public <x3d-public-bounces@web3d.org> On Behalf Of Andreas Plesch<br>Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 9:20 AM<br>To: X3D Graphics public mailing list <x3d-public@web3d.org><br>Subject: [x3d-public] Metadata tooltips for X3D 4.0</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The tooltips for Metadata nodes mention in a warning that in X3D 4.0 the default value for the containerField attribute changed to 'value'<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>but actual description of the attribute still has 'metadata' as the default value:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltips.html#MetadataString.containerField"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltips.html#MetadataString.containerField</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>is an example but all Metadata node tooltips are affected.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-Andreas<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Andreas Plesch<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Waltham, MA 02453<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>x3d-public mailing list<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>x3d-public@web3d.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p 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