On May 20, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Jonathan Wight wrote: > > On May 20, 2005, at 03:00, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > > >>> Does it allow the _creation_ of custom metadata tags on files? Or >>> are >>> we restricted to the ones defined by Apple? >>> >>> >>> >> >> Metadata importers can define whatever key/value pairs they want to. >> Only certain keys are used intelligently by Apple's Spotlight UI, but >> you can define whatever you want and there are APIs to query >> Spotlight for your own purposes. >> >> > > One problem with defining your own keys is that there are no > guarantees that other importers will use the same keys even if > they're representing the same thing... > > For example I'm defining two custom metadata attribute keys: > org_python_classes & org_python_functions to represent the list of > all classes and functions found within the source file. It would be > good if (for example) a PHP importer used the same keys as my > importer (perhaps with more generic key names) to represent the > same kinds of data found in PHP files. Unfortunately there is no > central repository (like Apples type & creator database) for > Spotlight metadata keys so it is really hard for importer authors > to cooperate.
It's not THAT hard, all you need is a central naming authority. You could use wikipedia-based names for things, since each wikipedia URL represents something unambiguous. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
