On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Nate Coraor <n...@bx.psu.edu> wrote: > Peter Cock wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.c...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> > Thanks for the link - I was aware my initial work on adding a generic >> > XML filetype was missing some steps, but I ran out of time yesterday: >> > https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/issue/568 >> >> Hi all, >> >> Could someone please review this patch: >> >> https://bitbucket.org/peterjc/galaxy-central/changeset/83c4366e0641 > > Hi Peter, > > I've merged your branch with these changes in 5897:6165799c4e49. > Thanks! > > --nate
Thanks Nate :) >> >> This is currently the one and only commit to my xml_filetype branch, >> >> https://bitbucket.org/peterjc/galaxy-central/src/xml_filetype >> >> This attempts to define a new basic data format 'xml' as per issue 568, >> >> https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/issue/568 >> >> This might help with a user error I was just presented with, where >> an Excel spreadsheet was uploaded and miss-identified as text - >> when it was clearly XML. Clicking on the 'eye' tried to display it >> and gave a cryptic error message in the central panel. >> >> In fact, this example makes me wonder if the proposed base XML >> datatype class should NOT be a subclass of text (as it is now with >> the blastxml datatype). >> >> Peter What are your thoughts on the above? I guess for some tasks it makes sense to regard XML as text, but for others not. Peter ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/
