On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:48:38AM -0400, Peter Amstutz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Reed Hedges wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:02:00AM -0400, Peter Amstutz wrote: > >>As I said, it's not ideal, but the advantages in potential > >>compatability/familiarity outweigh stylistic issues. > > > >Perhaps. I think it might be possible to come up with less-verbose, > >less-vos-idiomatic, more-obvious-to-casual-users XML with a little care. > > Well, I'm already engaged in coding up support the format that I proposed > as "XOD" (XML Object Description). If you have any suggestions, now is > the time to bring them up.
I'll have to look at the code you just comitted. > Oh, this is a great idea! Although, how do you delimit where you want > HTML/XML embedded in a property, and when you want it represented in the > structure? Meaning, you can dump the entire HTML into a single property, > or you can expand out the entire DOM and make a Vobject for every single > DOM node, and any combination of objects/properties in between. How do > you specify what parts get put in properties? Only CDATA and attribute data gets put in properties. All XML elements become "xml:" vobjects. (I think I made a recent change to HTTPserver extension to make this work). Look at vip://interreality.org:4232/news-rss.rdf for an example Reed _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list vos-d@interreality.org http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
