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Re: Request change to ptreleases.cgi
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:06:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> I'm not really up on XML, but it looks fine to me.
Looking at this some more...
The script currently returns XML with 3 lists of distribution files:
BASE
- file ZIP
- file ARJ
COMPLETE
- file ZIP
- file ARJ
UPDATE
- file ZIP
- file ARJ
- file ZIP
- file ARJ
- file ZIP
...
It could be argued that this should be either changed to a totally flat,
straight list of files (sort of the XML equivalant of the tab-delimited list),
or modified to a more hierarchical presentation.
A straight list:
<releases>
- file BASE ZIP
- file BASE ARJ
- file COMPLETE ZIP
- file COMPLETE ARJ
- file UPDATE ARJ
- file UPDATE ARJ
- file UPDATE ARJ
- file UPDATE ZIP
...
</releases>
Hierarchical:
<releases>
<release 0.27>
<current>base</current>
<base>
- file ZIP
- file ARJ
<release 2004-02>
<current>yes</current>
<complete>
- file ZIP
- file ARJ
<update>
- file ZIP
- file ARJ
<release 2004-01>
<current>no</current>
<update>
- file ZIP
- file ARJ
...
<release 1997-15>
<current>no</current>
<update>
- file ARJ
... or the XML could easily return both sets of information in a single stream.
I suppose the 'best' organization depends on what one wants to do with the data.
Steve
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| (...) I actually considered that when you made your original post. However, there are actually multiple different perfectly valid heirarchies, and for this reason I think the flat list is better overall. Here's an example with a different (...) (21 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Request change to ptreleases.cgi
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| (...) I'm not really up on XML, but it looks fine to me. I do have a question, though. Is there some significance that I am missing to naming the root element "opt"? --Travis Cobbs (21 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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