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Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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Date: 
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:48:49 GMT
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Sproaticus:

[...]

> > - These header entries have been suggested:
> >      Subject          [the question]
> >      Category         [category (and sub-category?) name]
> >      Content-Language [ISO 639 language code]
> >      Topic-Level      [integer, 0 is beginner/easy/simple]
> >      Version:         [author and ISO date]
> >      Newsgroups:      [comma-separated list of newsgroups
> >                        the question could appear in]
> >      Translation:     [translator, from language, latest
> >                        version string from the translated
> >                        entry]
> 
> (Please keep in mind Jacob, that these are nits I'm picking.  :-)

> "Newsgroups" would be more appropriately named "Location",
> indicating not just a ng but specific directories in the
> LUGNET data heirarchy.

Fine.

   Location: [comma-separated list of Lugnet relative URI's]

> Also, something like "Original-Language" makes more sense
> than "Translation".

What about

   Translated-From: [ISO 639 language code]
   Translator:      [translator, ISO date]

so

   Revision: Todd Lehman, 1997-12-24
   Revision: Minx Kelly, 1998-09-21
   Translated-From: en
   Translator: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 1999-02-21
   Content-Language: da

is an article written by Todd, edited by Minx, and then
translated from English to Danish by me?

We could also reuse "Revision" for translations.

> Also, I'm leaning more towards "Revision" rather than "Version".

> BTW, what *is* the format of an ISO date?

  Year (all digits)
  "-"
  Month (two digits)
  "-"
  Day (two digits)

> Plus:
>        Include:         [applies the headers of the included file]

Which of the header entries?

Subject, Category, Topic-Level, and Location I presume.

> > - ASCII + HTML entities are allowed in the headers.
> 
> At least the ® -style chars.  I don't see much need
> for more HTML in the headers.

That is what you call HTML entities.

Todd seems to want Latin-1 + HTML entities. That's fine for me.

> > - Should we use ASCII or Latin-1 for the content character
> >   set?
> 
> My knee-jerk reaction to the ASCII question is to just use
> the lower 128 (not counting the very lowest 32 of course :-),

You need 10 and 13 for newlines :-)

> and use some form of encoding for any other characters -- at
> least for the raw FAQ format.

Todd says he doesn't have problems with processing Latin-1.
Neither does I.

I think we should allow Latin-1, but let people restrict
_themselves_ to ASCII if they prefer that.

What's the word on numeric character references outside
Latin-1?

Play well,

Jacob

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Here's the edited list of header entries:

   Subject          [the question]
   Category         [category (and sub-category?) name]
   Content-Language [ISO 639 language code]
   Topic-Level      [integer, 0 is beginner/easy/simple]
   Revision         [author, ISO date]
   Location         [comma-separated list of Lugnet relative
                     URI's]
   Translated-From  [ISO 639 language code]
   Translator       [translator, ISO date]



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  Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
 
(...) Looks good to me. (...) You mean like, Revision: Todd Lehman, 19971224, en Revision: Minx Kelly, 19980921 Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 19990221, da or some such? (...) More easily read by humans, probably just as easy to parse. What would (...) (27 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)

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  Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
 
(...) Sounds mostly good. Catch my exceptions down below. (...) Or some other tool; but I agree, a well-defined subset of HTML can and should be used. (...) (Please keep in mind Jacob, that these are nits I'm picking. :-) "Newsgroups" would be more (...) (27 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)

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