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Subject: 
Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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lugnet.faq
Date: 
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:28:09 GMT
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
Sproaticus:
Also, something like "Original-Language" makes more sense
than "Translation".
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?

Looks good to me.

We could also reuse "Revision" for translations.

You mean like,

    Revision: Todd Lehman, 19971224, en
    Revision: Minx Kelly, 19980921
    Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 19990221, da

or some such?

BTW, what *is* the format of an ISO date?
  Year (all digits)
  "-"
  Month (two digits)
  "-"
  Day (two digits)

More easily read by humans, probably just as easy to parse.  What would a
time-of-day stamp look like?

Plus:
       Include:         [applies the headers of the included file]
Which of the header entries?

Any and all, probably.  Included headers could then be overridden by the
includer.

- 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.

Arg.  My bad.

Anyway, I prefer typing "®" over "(hold down ALT key)0174(release ALT
key)".  The mnemonics are *much* easier to remember.  Do you have any
preferred way of escaping hard-to-type characters?

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 :-)

Or use your imagination.  :-P  If we were working for Dilbert's company,
we'd have to work around a lack of "Q"'s also.

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]

Thank you for that.  Saved me from compiling the list myself.  :-)

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
"I prefer the term para-mental.  It keeps me out of the loony bin."

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  Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
 
Sproaticus: (...) No, like: Revision: Todd Lehman, 1997-12-24 Revision: Minx Kelly, 1998-09-21 Translated-From: en -> Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 1999-02-21 <- Content-Language: da (...) Can't remember. I think you append "-" Hours (two digits) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)

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  Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
 
Sproaticus: [...] (...) Fine. Location: [comma-separated list of Lugnet relative URI's] (...) What about Translated-From: [ISO 639 language code] Translator: [translator, ISO date] so Revision: Todd Lehman, 1997-12-24 Revision: Minx Kelly, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)

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