Re: Spanning trees (again)

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From: Garry Petrie (gp_at_europa.com)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 21:53:08 CET


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John Halleck wrote:

> Ralph Hartley, in private off list mail, has made a good case for
> justifying having more than one kind of spanning tree around.
>
> Although I feel (and believe that Ralph feels) that having spanning
> trees around is useful.

So a CaveXML file could have multiple spanning trees, which I probably would ignore, but I
would have to faithfully maintain as meta data when I use the file. There is a problem
with including calculated information from the base elements that has limited appeal, are
end users forced to propagate the results as meta data? If not, how do you decide which
elements to discard for which your software does not recognize? Do you give the end user
the option to filter out elements of CaveXML?

Garry Petrie


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