[htdig-dev] Questions

[Lachlan A. <lh...@ee...>]

Greetings,

I have some questions:

- What is the difference between  Dictionary::Destroy()
  and  Dictionary::Release() ?

- Have the "factor slots" changed at some time?  The
  keyword and description slots seem out of sync between
  ExternalParser.cc  (slots 10 and 11, respectively) and
  HTML.cc (slots 9 and 10).

(Since I'm rather new to this project, I'm hesitant to 
change any functionality that hasn't been flagged as a bug.)

- Is there something in the test suite to test parsing,
  especially of META tags?

- It seems that <meta foo="bar"> is usually treated the
  same as <meta name="foo" contents="bar">.  Can it always
  be? If so, we could avoid some code duplication (or
  triplication, since much of it is currently in both
  ExternalParser.cc  and  HTML.cc!).

- The handling of <meta name="date"...> seems to have
  disappeared from  ExternalParser.cc.  Has it been moved
  somewhere, been deliberately removed, or just got lost?

- Where can I read about the reason for changing "factor
  slots" from explicit factors to bit masks?  I assume that
  there was a change to the database format which required
  it...  It would be really nice to be able to specify
  heading factors depending on the heading level again!

Thanks :)
Lachlan

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