RE: [cgmo-webcgm] Review Chapter 2

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

At 07:58 AM 6/16/2005 +0200, =?us-ascii?Q?Dieter__Weidenbruck?=
wrote:
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Comments, Benoit or anyone?

[DW] We have been discussing this, however, if we really  want to use the XCF this way we should probably

flag the file accordingly to distinguish it from "normal" XCFs. We need to think about a way then to add the "name" attribute to

such a list file. Right now we are not able to enumerate all APS IDs, types, and attributes: the name(s) would be missing.

It was my impression that this was NOT a principal use case, but then
again I seem to recall that we have vacillated on this (Cologne and
after) and maybe I missed a final determination.

As you say, it presents problems, as it is distinct from the other
principal use cases of binding metadata to objects in file, both
standardized metadata like linkuri and private application
metadata.  Two problems at least, if it is an enumeration of
metadata already in the metafile:

1.) the 'name' attribute, as you mentioned.
2.) you don't really want to loadAndApply such a file, do you?  (It
is redundant, or if not totally redundant, then it's not an
enumeration!)

Pragmatically, I would like to see a solution to this use case postponed,
unless one of our user communities has a very strong need for it. 
The text could be fixed by removing the use case, or inserting
"partial" before "enumeration".

Should we generate an issue, just to force attention?  (And close it
next Wednesday.)

-Lofton.