On 30-09-2009 17:36:47 +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Tiziano Müller wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 28.09.2009, 20:23 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Pipping:
> >> repositories.xml
> >> =====================================================================
> >>   <repo
> >>       name="sping"
> >>       quality="experimental"
> >>       status="unofficial">
> >>     <description>Gentoo overlay of Sebastian Pipping</description>
> >>     <homepage>http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=overlay-sping.git</homepage>
> >>     <owner type="person">
> >>       <email>sebast...@pipping.org</email>
> >>       <name>Sebastian Pipping</name>
> >>     </owner>
> >>     <source type="git">git://git.goodpoint.de/overlay-sping.git</source>
> >>     <feed>http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=overlay-sping.git.git;a=atom</feed>
> >>   </repo>
> >> =====================================================================
> > 
> > What is the reason that "name" is an attribute? While quality, status
> > and type have a distinct set of allowed values, name doesn't and I'd
> > therefore set it as an element instead.
> 
> I don't see value in that change and I like name as it is.

Point remains that it looks in-consistant, for repo, name is an
attribute, while for owner it is a sub-element.  Why having attributes
in the first place anyway?
It's XML, so it may be extremely annoying to parse/use.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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