Re: [Phpwiki-talk] RFC: MAILBOX format: HEADER - BODY

[Adam S. <ad...@pe...>]

> So we could have standard headers (formerly called meta-data)  plus
> header plugins for the owner, plus body plugins for the users:

i like the idea of page meta data being stored in the page *very* much.
however i'm not so keen on actualy using mbox format for it.  unless it's
much easier to parse because of mime modules for php (or similar reason) i
would like to see a more human readable syntax.  something like:

#Owner: AdamShand
#Group: SomeGroup
#HeaderPermissions: -rwxr-x---
#BodyPermissions: -rwxrwxr-x

and then the page SomeGroup could have:

#Owner: SteveWainstead
#GroupMembers: SteveWainstead Jeff Dairiki AdamShand
#HeaderPermissions: -rwx------
#BodyPermissions: -rwxr-xr-x

etc etc.

> Haven't got an idea yet how to define group ownership in the header.
> Similar to a stupid unix-filesystem or an ACL list?

i think unix file system permissions are sufficient and they are fairly
well groked by the public.

> To parse out a header from the pagename is not slower than a seperate
> db access for the meta-data, and it is easier for the fs version.

it's also wiki'ish in the sense that the wiki page actually contains all
the information about itself, in itself.

adam.

ps. i just re-read this and i'm not sure i've done anything useful.  i
think i just removed what was novel about reini's approach and obfuscated
joe's ... but for what it's worth ... here it is anyway.