On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:44:12PM -0500, Steven Hazel wrote:
> Tavin Cole <tavin at mailandnews.com> writes:
>
> > Sounds like what you're essentially proposing is eliminating the
> > multi-part nature of the metadata standard entirely and just making
> > it one long FNP message per DocName where the distinct parts of the
> > old way become the top levels of sub-fieldsets.
>
> That's what I'm proposing.
>
> > IMHO it would probably be best just to keep it multi-part and use
> > the DocumentName to associate the parts with each other.
>
> Whereas IMHO it wouldn't.
>
> > I just see this getting out of hand.. and actually being harder to
> > parse and react to programmatically.
>
> I don't see it getting out of hand -- it's really easy to parse
> Name.Subname=value.
>
> > It seems like a spurious concatenation
>
> It's not spurious -- we're semantically grouping that information
> together, so let's do it syntactically as well.
