Re: [Ltru] Confirmation question about registry fields

[Felix Sasaki <fsasaki at w3.org>]

Stephane Bortzmeyer さんは書きました:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 03:29:59PM +0900,
>  Felix Sasaki <fsasaki at w3.org> wrote 
>  a message of 20 lines which said:
>
>   
> > I am working on an XML version of the registry
> >     
>
> That will be the third one <http://www.langtag.net/registries.html> 
> and still no YAML or JSON version :-)
>   

Yes, I know. So I won't even try to advertise this new version :)

>   
> > with the purpose of making it maller in terms of file size.
> >     
>
> I would prefer gzip (or a different and more compact format, like the
> two mentioned above).
>
>   
> > My question is whether the only fields which may appear more than
> > once (and hence must be represented as elements) are "description"
> > and "prefix".
> >     
>
> No, there is Comments, too. 3.1.2:
>
>   
> >   Field-names MUST occur no more than once per record, with the
> >   exception of the 'Description', 'Comments', and sometimes the
> >   'Prefix' field.
> >     

thanks for the pointer. /me looking at the registry did not find an 
example of an entry with several comments, though.

> Also, it seems to contradict the spirit of 3.1.2:
>
>   
> >   Future versions of this document might add additional fields to
> >   the registry; implementations SHOULD ignore fields found in the
> >   registry that are not defined in this document.
> >     
>
> While it is not explicit, it may indicate that a "once only" field
> could become a "several occurrences" field later.
>   

I had first a version of this XML registry with all fields as elements. 
The version I have now with most of the fields is 1/2 size - around 7K 
for the registry update. So using (of course non-repeatable) attributes 
has a significant benefit.

Felix

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