oh, april 1st.... ...... and I, of course, fell for it..... Basil Gasser wrote: > Just a couple of sceptical thoughts on this: > - For messages and parameters, you idea is basically to use the type > number instead of the name. While writing the number might be less to > write, I doubt it is more convenient > - For fields you use the type instead of the name. This reduces the > information contained in the xml as the matching between field and value > is not given explicitly anymore but implicitly by the order they appear > in the xml file. However, as far as I know, there is no specification on > ordering for xml elements, i.e. a xml parser can actually return > elements ordered as it likes. You therefore might get wrong results or > you rely on a parser implementation, which I think is not a good idea. > > After all, is not the whole idea of the XML encoding to have an easy to > read representation of messages? > > > ++ Basil > > John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > >> I'd like to announce a new concept I've come up with. Well, it's more >> of a refinement really. I call it "LTK-XML-LT" or LTK-XML less-typing. >> >> Whoah... if you're concerned I'm going for weak typing here, don't >> worry: I'm talking about the kind of typing that matters: keyboarding. >> >> Today, if you want to add an ROSpec, you need to type in this monstrosity: >> >> <ADD_ROSPEC MessageID="0"> >> <ROSpec> >> <ROSpecID>1</ROSpecID> >> <Priority>0</Priority> >> <CurrentState>Disabled</CurrentState> >> <ROBoundarySpec> >> <ROSpecStartTrigger> >> <ROSpecStartTriggerType>Null</ROSpecStartTriggerType> >> </ROSpecStartTrigger> >> <ROSpecStopTrigger> >> <ROSpecStopTriggerType>Null</ROSpecStopTriggerType> >> <DurationTriggerValue>0</DurationTriggerValue> >> </ROSpecStopTrigger> >> </ROBoundarySpec> >> <AISpec> >> <AntennaIDs>1 2 3 4</AntennaIDs> >> <AISpecStopTrigger> >> >> <AISpecStopTriggerType>Tag_Observation</AISpecStopTriggerType> >> <DurationTrigger>30000</DurationTrigger> >> <TagObservationTrigger> >> >> <TriggerType>Upon_Seeing_No_More_New_Tags_For_Tms_Or_Timeout</TriggerType> >> <NumberOfTags>100</NumberOfTags> >> <NumberOfAttempts>0</NumberOfAttempts> >> <T>10000</T> >> <Timeout>30000</Timeout> >> </TagObservationTrigger> >> </AISpecStopTrigger> >> <InventoryParameterSpec> >> <InventoryParameterSpecID>1</InventoryParameterSpecID> >> <ProtocolID>EPCGlobalClass1Gen2</ProtocolID> >> </InventoryParameterSpec> >> </AISpec> >> </ROSpec> >> </ADD_ROSPEC> >> >> Holy moly. Look at all those characters! That's extra "typing" we don't need. >> >> Here's what it looks like in LTK-XML-LT: >> >> <M_20 MessageID="0"> >> <P_20> >> <u32>1</u32><u8>0</u8><u8>0</u8> >> >> <P_178><P_179><u8>0</u8></P_179><P_182><u8>0</u8><u32>0</u32></P_182></P_178> >> <P_183> >> <u16v>1 2 3 4</u16v> >> <P_184> >> <u8>3</u8> >> <u32>30000</u32> >> <P_185> >> <u8>1</u8> >> <u16>100</u16> >> <u16>0</u16> >> <u16>10000</u16> >> <u32>30000</u32> >> </P_185> >> </P_184> >> <P_186><u16>1</u16><u8>0</u8></P_186> >> </P_183> >> </P_20> >> </M_20> >> >> Wow, talk about compression, right? Imagine all the time you will save >> with those pesky, long constants and identifier strings. A thing of >> the past, and good riddance, I say. >> >> Plus, all your types are right out there in plain view, easy to access >> at a glance. Strong typing, here we come! >> >> Comments? Questions? >> >> -- John. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >> It's the best place to buy or sell services for >> just about anything Open Source. >> http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace >> _______________________________________________ >> llrp-toolkit-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/llrp-toolkit-devel >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > llrp-toolkit-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/llrp-toolkit-devel >
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