Re: Feature Request: question id [was Thoughts on the Way to School]

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On Monday 20 October 2003 11:18, Richard In Public wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks to everyone who responded to my original post.  Apologies for the
> long break in correspondence.
>
> DAVE'S SUGGESTION
>
> Dave, the process you suggest works for me:
>
> 1.    Run a script creating elements.txt from some source and deleting
> elements.bin, if it exists, to force memaid to use the .txt file
> 2.    Use Memaid
> 3.    Convert elements.txt back into xml
>
> MY SETUP
>
> 1.    I write up my lecture notes in docbook format
> 2.    docbook 4.2 has question and answer tags
> (http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/qandaset.html)
> 3.    I use these to markup memaid-style questions as part of these notes
> 4.    I've written a 'script' that extracts question/answer from a docbook
> file and creates a memaid elements.txt file.
>
> ROUNDTRIPING
>
> 1.    At present, the entries are exported with all memaid fields set to
> [0] 2.    I frequently rework my question/answers so I want persist memaid
> data between exports
> 3.    I want to, as you suggest, create a script that exports the memaid
> data into xml, but
> 4.    I need to update my docbook files, associating the new data with the
> original question/answers
> 5.    To do this, I need to be able to match the original questions/answers
> 6.    To do this I need the elements.txt file to store an ID for each entry
> 7.    As elements.txt is r-written after each memaid session any fields I
> add are lost
>
> REQUEST
>
> 1.    Add an ID field to the elements.txt file, e.g.  field
> id=[contract-law-faq-19]
> 2.    Make this a string - 1.  Flexible, 2. XML ID are required to be
> strings, 3. easier to ensure unique IDs when merging multiple xml files

FWIW, I'm reworking the Superkaramba client to use XML files and to add 
category support (which is I think similar to your id=field). I'll send out 
the dtd I used sometime in the next few days for feedback.

Cheers,

Peter

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Peter Bienstman
Ghent University, Dep. of Information Technology
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
tel: +32 9 264 34 45, fax: +32 9 264 35 93
WWW: http://photonics.intec.ugent.be
email: [email protected]
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