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

Awesome.  Looking forward to it.

Richard

Peter Bienstman wrote:

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>On Monday 20 October 2003 11:18, Richard In Public wrote:
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>>Hi
>>
>>Thanks to everyone who responded to my original post.  Apologies for the
>>long break in correspondence.
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>>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
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>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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