Re: purpose for xmlfs improvment -GSoC application -

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:34:26PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote:

> Charly Caulet <charly.caulet@no-log.org> writes:

> One possibility would be to simply prefix the non-attribute nodes with
> numbers, e.g.  `1 author', `2 title', `3 isbn'.  The problem here
> is with insertion, because it would require renaming the following
> nodes prior to this.
> 
> One way of tackling this would be to have a specifiable spacing
> between the numbers, e.g.  `10 author', `20 title', `30 isbn'.  The
> space will run out, but a command for re-spacing the existing nodes
> would be fix this.

I don't like the fixed spacing bit, but the idea is interesting, and
made me think of something sligtly different: How about fractions? 2.1,
2.2, 2.1.1...

These would be robust as long as the translator stays active. It would
still change when restarting the translator though, which is problematic
IMHO.

-antrik-