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Re: Working sketch of FAQ item data format
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Date: 
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 05:14:50 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
Refer: title.en.faq
Subject: You mean I can get money for my old LEGO®?
Locations: /market/auction/,/market/,/
Newsgroups: lugnet.market.auction
Author: Todd Lehman
FAQ-Date: 19990423

What does the Refer header mean?

Say, due to what we figured out on the other thread, we can nix the
Locations and Newsgroups headers, and just keep the Subject and Author
headers.

But doesn't the date belong on the same line is the author?...

   Version: 19960123 Todd Lehman
   Version: 19960317 Todd Lehman
   Version: 19990423 Jeremy Sproat
            ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
              date   author/editor

or...

   Version: 19960123.0230 Todd Lehman
   Version: 19960317.1500 Todd Lehman
   Version: 19990423.2130 Jeremy Sproat
            ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
              date   time author/editor

(Need some word like 'history' or 'version' or 'revision' that covers both
the initial writing and subsequent updates.)


<FILE NAME="/faq/lugnet/market/auction/awareness/title.en.faq">
Refer: ../title.en.faq

Why does this index file refer to the index file in the parent directory?


Category: Awareness

When this (a category) is also a newsgroup name that already exists, the
name (long & short forms) will already be defined elsewhere.  I wonder if
these category names should be defined elsewhere too -- and merged in with
that other listing.

<FILE NAME="/faq/lugnet/market/auction/title.en.faq">
Refer: ../title.en.faq
Category: Auctions
</FILE>

This matches the external name.  :)


<FILE NAME="/faq/lugnet/market/title.en.faq">
Refer: ../title.en.faq
Category: The Lego Market
</FILE>

The external name for /market/ is currently "Marketplace" but it might be
shortened to "Market"...so here's a case where having the names be multiply
defined could get into some inconsistencies...

--Todd



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  Re: Working sketch of FAQ item data format
 
(...) Would "Include" be better? (...) Sure, it looks like you're able to efficiently distinguish between a ng and a non-ng directory. (...) The top line looks good. I doubt we'd need the time-of-day stamp very often, if at all. Would it be possible (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)

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  Working sketch of FAQ item data format
 
(Originally in another thread. I gave it its own thread to make finding it and building upon it easier.) Here's a working sketch of the FAQ data format; in quasi-XML, to separate the files. <FILE NAME="file: /faq/lugnet/market/a...1.en.faq"> Refer: (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)

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