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On Sunday 08 of February 2009 19:51:29 Tiziano Müller wrote: |
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> It's metadata-stuff, why not put it there? |
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> You have two possibilities: |
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> a) Introduce new elements: |
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> <tags> |
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> <tag>foo</tag> |
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> <tag>bar</tag> |
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> </tags> |
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> b) Think of herds as tags, then you have many packages already tagged. |
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> To be able to add new herds/tags without messing up with the |
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> maintainer-info, I'd then introduce new attributes for <maintainer> and |
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> instead of writing <herd>foo</herd> meaning that a package is maintainer |
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> by team "foo" just write <maintainer type="team">foo</maintainer> |
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> instead. |
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> Then you can use the "herd" element in metadata.xml freely as a tag. |
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That's basically exactly what I've proposed, I'd just add (possibly optional) |
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weight or relevance of tag as well, for example: |
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<tags> |
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<tag>foo</tag> |
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<!-- some less relevant tag --> |
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<tag weight="0.5">bar</tag> |
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</tags> |
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as one cannot forget that tag search is *vector*, not binary search - so there |
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are more possibilities to explore. |
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Btw, too bad, metadat XML schema is written in DTD and not in some easier to |
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read more expressive way - like RelaxNG. |
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regards |
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MM |
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