So, a and b are siblings above and below, pos is 0 for first child ... ?

nice

In this scheme all nodes are relatively located,
What would you think of adding 'address':
the list of positions which define absolute node location in a file?

Thanks,
Kent


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Ville M. Vainio <[email protected]> wrote:
> This schema (with NODES and EDGES) is sufficient to efficiently store leo
> doc structure:
>
> https://gist.github.com/vivainio/1493084
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:37 AM, David McNab <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> All good thoughts, Don. I'm a fan of diff-able text formats myself.
>>
>> I'm wondering if a good first step might be a generic "save/load"
>> interface layer with several pluggable backends, such as:
>>
>> Single file storage - this would buffer up all the saved nodes, amalgamate
>> them and write them out as a single .xml file. Oh yes, the familiar .leo
>> file format :P
>> *sql implementation - this would have MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite
>> variants - saving one node per row
>> Key/value for Berkeley DB and similar
>> NoSQL - for those who can be bothered
>> JSONRPC/XML-RPC implementation - saving to/loading from a central server
>>
>> For SQL database storage, the schema doesn't have to be difficult. The
>> main quirk would be a many to many related join between parent and child,
>> which would support clones by allowing any given node to have multiple
>> parents.
>>
>> Cheers
>> David
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Don Dwiggins <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 3/21/13 7:59 AM, Ville M. Vainio wrote:
>>>
>>> DB like storage for leo documents comes up every 6 months. Technically,
>>> it makes sense in many ways, but it's about payback vs. implementation work.
>>>
>>>
>>> Some quick thoughts on this:
>>>
>>> I recently converted a server that used XMLRPC, to use JSONRPC.  Some
>>> testing revealed that it improved the speed of processing large message by a
>>> few orders of magnitude.  Even if Leo were to stay with a text-based format,
>>> it might be worth investigating a "lighter" format than XML.  (There's a
>>> quote floating around the net: "Some people, when confronted with a problem,
>>> think 'I know, I'll use XML.' Now they have two problems.")  That said, I'm
>>> a total newbie to Leo, and offer this just in case it rings a bell...
>>>
>>> One advantage of a text format: it can easily be put under revision
>>> control, and the differences between revisions easily reviewed.  A
>>> "versioned" DB format is possible, of course, and might even have been
>>> implemented; still, it's a consideration.
>>>
>>> The Chandler project (http://chandlerproject.org/) has been going for
>>> many years, and is based on a storage format of their own designing,
>>> intended to be used for storing emails, calendars, tasks, ....  It might
>>> repay some investigation.
>>>
>>> For multi-user situations, a Leo-specific server, possibly implemented in
>>> Twisted, might be worth considering.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Again, FWIW,
>>> Don Dwiggins
>>> Emacs user looking to transition to Leo...
>>>
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