--On Wednesday, November 10, 2004 08:28:38 AM -0700 Antone Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at 10:10 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:Thus my suggestion to add an optional attribute to indicate what the path separator is.Finally, we cannot reserve a character as a path separator unless we want to escape that character inside a category name. Which is messy.
There are a few reasons why we shouldn't do that.
1. There is no need for the client to parse the path. That is, the client is not going to click on parts of the path to navigate. It may need to display it, but not parse it.
2. Selecting any character, even a configurable one, makes that character unavailable for use inside names.
3. Many systems (faceted, geographic, DAGs) don't have paths, so this would only apply to some.
wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Architect Verity Ultraseek
