[darcs-devel] PatchPlugins / XML files
Hi, On http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/PatchPlugins there is discussion about different "atomic" patch types. The page points out that test files are different from binary files and suggests that those two cases might be handled adequately. It also points out that XML is different from both text and binary. (XML is kind of like text but the file might have no line endings, patches really shouldn't break the well-formedness of documents, etc.) I've looked, but so far I haven't seen whether anything like treating structured data like XML separately from text and binary has been attempted. Is anyone else interested in this sort of thing? Or has handling XML in darcs already been addressed and I just haven't seen it yet? Thanks, Allan. ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
Re: [darcs-devel] PatchPlugins / XML files
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Allan Lyons wrote: > Hi, > > On http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/PatchPlugins there is discussion > about different "atomic" patch types. The page points out that test > files are different from binary files and suggests that those two cases > might be handled adequately. It also points out that XML is different > from both text and binary. (XML is kind of like text but the file might > have no line endings, patches really shouldn't break the > well-formedness of documents, etc.) > > I've looked, but so far I haven't seen whether anything like treating > structured data like XML separately from text and binary has been > attempted. Is anyone else interested in this sort of thing? > > Or has handling XML in darcs already been addressed and I just haven't > seen it yet? Allan, The functionality is not in darcs now,but it has been discussed before. For example, here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03808.html Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/ ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
Re: [darcs-devel] PatchPlugins / XML files
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:10:40PM -0500, Mark Stosberg wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Allan Lyons wrote: > > > I've looked, but so far I haven't seen whether anything like treating > > structured data like XML separately from text and binary has been > > attempted. Is anyone else interested in this sort of thing? > > > > Or has handling XML in darcs already been addressed and I just haven't > > seen it yet? > > The functionality is not in darcs now,but it has been discussed before. > For example, here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03808.html Thanks for the link. It gives quite a bit of insite into how darcs is put together. If I come up with something that works for arbitrary, valid XML, would anyone else be interested? Allan. ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
Re: [darcs-devel] PatchPlugins / XML files
Allan Lyons wrote: > If I come up with something that works for arbitrary, valid XML, would > anyone else be interested? There's certainly quite a bit of interest in such work from what I've heard. A particular scenario would be if you can generate light-weight patches for the large zipped XML files (ODF, some OOXML) that are much kinder than the current large binary patches for these files. Albeit that brings up the issue of zip-transparent patch types, which have been debated but nothing yet has happened on that front either. One issue to consider, however is the question of "valid". Presumably you aren't talking about constraining to well-described schema (as in the XML world usage of "valid") and instead just mean syntactically valid. Even then, David Roundry has expressed concern that even syntactically invalid documents may need to be expressed (consider an XML document in progress composed in a text editor and not syntactically validated until "finished"), so there'd need to be some sort of fallback mechanism in that case. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
