Re: [Tracker] My disagreement with a recent change in the ontology for GNOME Notes

[Pierre-Yves Luyten <py luyten fr>]

Hi!,


On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:22:49 +0200, Philip Van Hoof
<philip codeminded be> wrote:
> Hi Pierre-Yves,
>
> I should probably have watched the ML more carefully now that it's
> committed and too late.


My bad, I hope the fact there was no release yet allows us to revert
without concern.


 
> +nfo:xmlContent a rdf:Property ;
> +     rdfs:comment "XML/HTML or other rich representation of a document" ;

(...)

> I disagree with this approach. We should not put formatted content into
> the Nepomuk storage:

(...)


> We can't query it, because its contents are formatted and
> we don't have query capabilities to query your formatted contents. And
> even if we would allow storage of formatted content like XML, we should
> enforce the format using a DTD or other XML schema so that we're sure
> that the inserted format is valid and known.


I think pushing data into Tracker make sense if the format is
understood by several applications. Which is why i first thought "HTML",
and pushing there only the *representation* of the note. However in the
specific case of notes, XML seemed correct since Tomboy format [1] is
already understood by several applications, such as Tomboy, Gnote,
Conboy, Tomdroid, ongoing Macboy - and Bijiben. (In the XML case
however, we can notice if we stick to Tomboy format, both rich content
and metadata are to be stored.)



> Don't abuse Tracker to solve your 'whatever' storage needs.

Sure, this is not the idea at all.


Regards,
Pierre-Yves
 
[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Tomboy/NoteXmlFormat