On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 01:47, Leo Sutic wrote:
> > From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 00:24, Leo Sutic wrote:
> > > In short: Peter - just do what feels right. This is like the
> > > whitespace style of your code (brace on same or following
> >
> > line?), and
> >
> > > we can expend a metric shitload of time arguing back and forth with
> > > very little of actual value coming out of it.
> >
> > ahh - okay ;)
> >
> > I am using Davids suggestion and it seems to work reasonably
> > well. In database
> > terms it boils down to;
> > * normalize data
> > * keys (or candidate keys) become attributes
> > * repeating groups become elements
> > * remaining data items become either elements (if long),
> > attributes (if
> > "salient") or I flip a coin if no other rule holds ;)
>
> Sounds OK. If possible - could you make it so that the resulting
> structure can be made into a Configuration? I.e. no mixed content.
No problem. At the moment I only end up with content in "long" data items.
However I have not come across any of those while I was normalizing the
config files.
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Peter Donald
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