Am Mit, 02. Mai 2001 10:14:28 -0500, schrieb Sean Lamb:
> It seems that the easiest would be to keep the schema as it is but save
> the name fields using some form of XML to markup the tagged portion of
> the text. By saving the data in XML, we're still saving a plain text
> field, but the XML tags can easily mark which portions need to be
> underlined when the record is displayed on the screen or printed on a
> report. This has the side advantage of reducing the number of records
> that are needed to store the information for this kind of data.
Thats an good Idea. Perhaps it would be possible to use some kind of abstract
tags which are interpreted or ignored by reports and can be customized.
So that the user can give evry mark a name and the reports can ask how
which mark should be printed including skipping some part of the name.
This information schould be in the data file/database. Perhaps it is possible
to add it as an table and one where the reports can store their interpretation
of the XML tags.
> The only requirement, then would be that the data entry screens and the
> reports are able to handle the extra data in this field.
For simple reports and testing there could be a function which strips all XML
tags from the name.
Tobias
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