Re: Autorouting accessible blah [Re: Roadmap for 0.92]

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 1 Aug 2003, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Fri, Aug 01, 2003, à 01:44:47AM -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit:
>> On 1 Aug 2003, Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
>>> Alan Horkan wrote:
>>>
>>>> True False
>>>>
>>> Or <point x="3" y="2" directions="north,south,west">
>>>
>>> (overriding _whole_ default set of directions for that point)
>>
>> I'd like to do that, except it's a bad idea to have XML attributes that
>> themselves have structure to them.  Then we'll need an extra little
>> parser for the attribute, which defeats the purpose of XML.
>
> then how about:
> 	<point x="3" y="2">
> 		<north/>
> 		<south/>
> 		<west/>
> 	</point>
>
> and priorities become a matter of adding <north priority="2"/> should
> that become important.

That's actually fairly compact.  For some reason I always try to put data
into attributes -- this looks much better.

-Lars

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