Hi Bruce, as far as I know, namespace could be specified for individual surveys. I am just afraid, this feature has not been tested a lot, so please let me know if some unexpected behavior occurs.
Thanks, S. On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 at 20:09, Bruce Mutton <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Em domingo, 14 de novembro de 2021 às 2:10 AM, Bruce Mutton < > [email protected]> escreveu: > > >> Just a quick question before contemplating the migration of a large > (more than 70 km and many caves) dataset to Therion. > >> > >> The dataset has unique station names, so in Therion speak, every survey > would have -namespace off set. > > >Sorry for the slightly off topic reply but AFAIU your dataset having > station unique names allows you to set -namespace off which could save some > work but you don't have to and as you already know that some other parts of > your dataset needs -namespace on, why bother with -namespace off? > > Because the existing dataset that it is proposed to migrate (using a > custom script): > - is large with many surveys and sub-surveys > - Therion implicitly defaults to -namespace on for every single survey > - with that setting, survey stations, although unique across surveys, > cannot be seen unless a namespace is specified > - therefore it will not compile until -namespace off is set in each > relevant survey and sub-survey. > > A decade ago, before I was particularly aware of 'survey -namespace', I > migrated this same dataset, and not being aware I could turn it off, had to > manually equate stations to join all the surveys, and equate loops where > they involved more than one survey. I only did half of it before I got fed > up. I realise now that -namespace off is the solution, and that it can be > put in the custom script. > But in the meantime I have some native Therion sub-projects that I want to > merge into the migrated project, that, of course, use and rely on the > implicit default of -namespace on because the stations are not unique (each > survey has the station sequence 1 2 3 4 ...). I do not have an appetite to > manually make these stations unique, even using -station-names to modify > them it will be too painful. > > Hence I am testing the idea of projects where some surveys have -namespace > on and some -namespace off. > I could modify one of my existing projects to see what happens, but before > doing that I am interested to find out if others have experience with this > scenario. > > Regards > Bruce > > > > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion >
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