Re: <text> vs. <comment>

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From: Richard Knapp (gyp_caver_at_yahoo.com)
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><comment made_by="Jim" text="had a bubble in it"
> <date day="1" month="2" year="2001" />
></comment>

If the text gets long, is it really an attribute of the comment or is it just the text of the
comment? A comment (or text or whatever) is, to me, the only valid use of CDATA in the
format.

BTW, I kind of like being able to attribute it to someone.

If the comment was in a survey, wouldn't it just inherit the survey's date?

>2. the text should be open ended and free form.

This is a good usage for CDATA.

>It would also allow me to comment out, some weird CaveXML+ extension
>that included something that others would find un-readable.

You mean remove it from the file's structure? How would this be done?

>Just to play with text blocks a bit, I might suggest an optional
>title/name attribute for the main text block. So in summary,

> <text xml:lang="es" author="Jose" date="2001-01-27">
> que significa?
> </text>

Nice!

> <text title="Article: How we found Joe's Annex" author="Joe Bob" >
> The follow was taken from an article in the Armchair Cave, January
>2001
> Yada yada yada ....
> </text>

Joe Bob, eh?

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