Re: [xml] A newbee, some developer questions.

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

Wilbert -
This is off of your question, but are you aware of Cody Russell's Ludwig
Van project?
http://www.gnome.org/~bratsche/ludwig.html
Cheers,
John

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 04:28, Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to this list, and am planning to start a (ambitious) musical
> notation editor for GTK2, maybe Gnome. I want to use libxml for
> reading and saving the documents, but also for storing and editing the
> tree in memory.
> 
> My question is: I want to attach some userdata to xml nodes, (e.g.
> cached metrical data, linebreak booleans etc) that I don't want to be
> output when saving the file. But I want the data to be carried along
> when moving the nodes around. The data is used to speed up rendering
> after small changes to the tree.
> 
> How should I do that? Can I attach just some (pointer to) userdata
> to xml nodes? Should I use attributes in another namespace, that are
> filtered out on saving? Should I look into gdome2?
> 
> Or should I cache the rendering info in another C data structure
> (which would be part of the rendering canvas architecture)?
> 
> Some hints by more experiences developers would greatly be
> appreciated, thanks in advance for that.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Wilbert Berendsen.
> 
> 
> 
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