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Posted to dev@cocoon.apache.org by Sylvain Wallez <sy...@anyware-tech.com> on 2003/08/01 15:04:17 UTC
[Woody] ids or refs ?
While reviewing the file formats, I was wondering...
Currently, Woody uses the "id" attribute everywhere for identifiers be
there on a defining element (e.g. <wd:field>) or a referring element
(e.g. <wi:widget>).
Now that we will start to mix namespaces and have format & datatype
dictionaries referred to by other files, it seems to me cleaner and more
understandable to differentiate defining and referring attribute.
For this, I propose to keep the current "id" on defining elements and
use "ref" attribute on referring elements.
Thoughts ? Is it nitpicking ?
Sylvain
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Re: [Woody] ids or refs ?
Posted by Sylvain Wallez <sy...@anyware-tech.com>.
Bruno Dumon wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 15:04, Sylvain Wallez wrote:
>
>
<snip/>
>>For this, I propose to keep the current "id" on defining elements and
>>use "ref" attribute on referring elements.
>>
>>Thoughts ? Is it nitpicking ?
>>
>>
>
>No, ref is better.
>
>
Kewl ;-)
Sylvain
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Re: [Woody] ids or refs ?
Posted by Bruno Dumon <br...@outerthought.org>.
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 15:04, Sylvain Wallez wrote:
> While reviewing the file formats, I was wondering...
>
> Currently, Woody uses the "id" attribute everywhere for identifiers be
> there on a defining element (e.g. <wd:field>) or a referring element
> (e.g. <wi:widget>).
>
> Now that we will start to mix namespaces and have format & datatype
> dictionaries referred to by other files, it seems to me cleaner and more
> understandable to differentiate defining and referring attribute.
>
> For this, I propose to keep the current "id" on defining elements and
> use "ref" attribute on referring elements.
>
> Thoughts ? Is it nitpicking ?
No, ref is better.
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