On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 22:48, David Douthitt wrote: > On 4/17/02 at 7:54 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 19:50, David Douthitt wrote: > > > Will the .desc/.xml file's primary purpose be indexing our > > packages, or will it be used by the LEAF release/branch > > internally? If its intended use is for indexing, I believe > > we should use a XML metadata format. If its for internal > > use, a CSV text file is probably best. > > My thought was to be able to provide the following abilities: > > * Indexing (by groups) > * Requirements > * Keyword searching > * Descriptions
David, This sounds like XML metadata to me. > ...and with the following requirements: > > * Expandability (add tags at will) XML can handle this. > * Robustness (unknown tags don't matter) I believe XML can handle this, if structured properly. > * Ability to be used on an LRP system > * Analyzed by shell code Please explain the necessity for these two requirements? > * Simple XML metadata files are simple text files with structure. I agree that a CSV file is easier to read. > To me, that all works against XML. Only the LEAF system and shell requirements are problems for XML metadata. What was your opinion of CSV (comma separated values)? You may want to take a look at this article. It validates your shell parsing argument. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-sbxml.html -- Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
