On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:27:04PM -0500, Steven Hazel wrote: > Adam Langley <agl at linuxpower.org> writes: > > > Fair enought. So do we want something like: > > > > DocInfo > > DocName=... > > Redirect > > URI= > > EndMessage > > Info > > ... > > EndMessage > > EndMessage > > > > seems the conclusion of a leveled arch. > > Yeah, except that the way you do that in FNP is: > > DocInfo > DocName=... > Redirect.URI= > Redirect.whatever=whosit > Info.blah=foo > Info.gargargar=bar > EndMessage
Sounds like what you're essentially proposing is eliminating the multi-part nature of the metadata standard entirely and just making it one long FNP message per DocName where the distinct parts of the old way become the top levels of sub-fieldsets. IMHO it would probably be best just to keep it multi-part and use the DocumentName to associate the parts with each other. DocInfo DocName=... WaitRedirect.Time=5 Info.blah=foo Info.gargargar=bar SplitFile.FileSize=123456789 SplitFile.Chunks=10 SplitFile.Chunk.1=CHK at ... ... SplitFile.Chunk.10=CHK at ... SplitFile.CheckLevels=1 SplitFile.Check.*.*=... SplitFile.Graph.*.*=... EndMessage I just see this getting out of hand.. and actually being harder to parse and
