XInfo vs Spice metadata
Jason van Zyl <[email protected]>
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Howdy, I was just wondering what the motivation was to use attributes over the .xinfo format you were using in phoenix. Can you have a rich object model with the attributes? By that I mean that I liked the .xinfo format because you could really put whatever you wanted in there and unmarshall the xml into a nice object model. Does using attributes allow this? Is there really a difference in having an .xinfo descriptor along side the component as opposed to having a class which containers attributes? It just seems to me like the representation available in the attributes could be limiting. Maybe I have this wrong but are you planning to replace the .xinfo file with attributes or is this just to augment the information in .xinfo. At this point I don't honestly see the advantage of attributes over an xml descriptor. -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [email protected] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society