Re: [Keitaidata-devel] licence/xml/format

[Curt S. <cj...@cy...>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Nick May wrote:

> Can we take this as read? I know there was comment about making something
> that was more Java friendly.

Actually, it was more people-friendly that the comments were about,
I think. And there is a point there. But XML is fine by me.

Regarding file formats: I still think that the inheritance and
whatnot are, at least in many cases, going to help more than they
hurt. Since these data are quite static (phone models don't generally
change their capabilities, and when they do you need to keep the
old descripiton anyway) we're not saving much editing at all, and
we're making it much harder to figure out what the actual value of
a parameter is.

I'd recommend doing no sharing at first, and only starting to use
sharing where we see an appreciable gain. By that I mean that one
parameter in an XML file should drag in at least a dozen or so
other data items, and this should be used by at least half a dozen
phones.

As for the fallbacks, they might be useful, they might not. It
really depends on our phone recognition algorithms, and the
commonality between phones. Sure, we can probably recognise a new
503i, but that still doesn't tell us how many colours it has, how
many voices the synthesizer has, and so on.

cjs
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