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2.2.4.1 Metadata Types

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The architecture of the metadata allows for multiple types of metadata.

Each type of metadata has an associated collection of metadata records, a unique name, and a set of predefined properties. Those properties describe whether the metadata remains associated with the cell or its content during runtime operations (for example, insert, shift, copy/paste, merge, or unmerge operations), as well as whether the metadata is cell metadata (section 2.2.4.2) or value metadata (section 2.2.4.3).

A metadata type is represented by an MDTInfo record (section 2.4.162).