Re: New KnowIt file format

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Hi Micha=C5=82!

On Thursday 30 March 2006 13:08, Michal Rudolf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is anybody still here? I hope KnowIt is not dead. I am planning a partial
> rewrite. First goal is to design flexible and extensible XML format.

Nice to hear that!
I am still an avid user. If I should name the desktop apps I used most=20
frequently and continously over the last years, KMail, Psi and KnowIt
would be on the podium. ;-)

> So, I would like to ask those who are interested, what features will be
> necessary? Below are my first thoughts and additional questions:
>
> Supported per-note information:
> * body (I have to check how to encode HTML in XML, but I hope it is
> possible)=20

the cleanest way is to embed it as namespaced XHTML. If that is not an opti=
on=20
for some reason (as it could be cumbersome to convert the TextEdit HTML int=
o=20
proper XHTML), you can escape it by replacing <, ", & with &lt; &quot; &amp=
;.=20
Look at the Atom format [1] for examples for both. The latter should be=20
handled by QtXml automatically anyway.

> * icon (question: how to represent this information)=20
> * date of last modification (should it be optional)
> * open/closed status (for folders)
> * id (numeric note id)
> * attachments (links, pictures etc.)
>
> Any suggestions?


=2D creation date (I'd really like to have these dates always added by defa=
ult,=20
so you could sort notes in a timeline view by creation/modification date.=20
Also interesting for historic reasons ;-) ("wtf?? this is always three year=
s=20
ago?!?")
=2D tags (i.e., keywords). So you have an alternative to the folder hierarc=
hy=20
when linking together notes belonging to a topic.

[1] http://www.atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/#text

Regards,

=46rank


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