Re: Autorouting accessible blah [Re: Roadmap for 0.92]

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 1 Aug 2003, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Fri, Aug 01, 2003, Ã 01:44:47AM -0500, Lars Clausen a Ãcrit:
> > On 1 Aug 2003, Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
> > > Alan Horkan wrote:
> > >
> > > > True False
> > > Or <point x="3" y="2" directions="north,south,west">
> > >
> > > (overriding _whole_ default set of directions for that point)
> >
> > I'd like to do that, except it's a bad idea to have XML attributes that
> > themselves have structure to them.  Then we'll need an extra little
> > parser for the attribute, which defeats the purpose of XML.
>
> then how about:
>       <point x="3" y="2">
>               <north/>
>               <south/>
>               <west/>
>       </point>
>
> and priorities become a matter of adding <north priority="2"/> should
> that become important.

That's actually fairly compact.  For some reason I always try to put data
into attributes -- this looks much better.

-Lars

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