Johan Sundström wrote:
> Interesting philosophical issues.
>   
Indeed, some of these things boil down to philosophical stances.

The original goal of Exhibit is to lengthen and fatten the Long Tail of 
machine-processable structured data on the Web. Whatever dirty tricks we 
can pull to make that happen, I'm all for it.

> Should I avoid checking in things that enable Exhibit users to do this
> kind of thing? I realized, just now, that the small addition of a
> valueParser property for use with loadDataFromTable already exposes
> this possibility to me, as it references a function that is at liberty
> to return one or more item properties, given a table cell node (and
> its contents).
>   
What we lack here is not vision and wisdom ... but an army of 
programmers. :-) And some of these features are better to experiment 
with than just to think about. As long as we advertise certain features 
as "experimental", we can keep them in the code base so we ourselves get 
a feel of using them.

(Some of us might link our exhibits to the code in subversion, so just 
give us a warning should any big commit is going in.)

David

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