Re: one additional attribute
Daniel Veillard <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.metadata |
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:41:37PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > Hi, > Some of you might be following my bits of strife with speeding up the > importing of the metadata using python and libxml2. > > I've gotten the code to a point using the xmlReader interface to libxml2 > - ran into a snag of having no way to produce an intelligent progress > callback for feeding back into an interface to give the user some > estimate of when it would be done. > > so I'm wondering if everyone thinks it would be ok to add a total > packages counter attribute to the first tag in the metadata ie: > > primary.xml: > <metadata packagecount="1610"> > > filelists.xml: > <filelists packagecount="1610"> > > otherdata.xml: > <otherdata packagecount="1610"> > > it shouldn't disrupt any other parsers but it would mean nicer progress > callbacks for those folks who will hopefully use the importing routines > in python. > > Does this sound ok? This certainly sounds fine to me :-) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ [email protected] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/