Re: XML in core

On Friday 07 of November 2003 15:18, Peter Bienstman wrote:
> > I made it that way that at the begin of elements.xml there is added
> > comment with some basic instruction and legend about variables.
>
> Is the comment enclosed in xml tags? I'm no expert, but you have to make
> sure that those comments don't interfere with the parsing.

I put comments in <!-- *here* -->
so AFAIK it's pretty valid in XML itself; "XML parser wannabe" in the core 
properly ignores them.

> > 3. <id> versus <cat> field - both fields are using the same internal
> > variable AFAIK, but aplication can be different (e.g. AFAIK Richard is
> > using <id> field to have an "identification" - a string to identify
> > element). Hmm, I can make core can use <cat> instead of <id>, anyways.
> > Is this a good idea..?
>
> Probably not a good idea to mix them, as my use of the id field is just a
> hack. Also the ID tag and the CAT tag are conceptually different beasts.
> I suggest that you use the ID tag in the core. When (in the far future) I
> switch to full Python datastructures for the elements, I'll make sure that
> my client can also parse the ID tag.

OK!

Dave



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