From: Garry Petrie (gp_at_europa.com)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 17:03:39 CET
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Paul & Eleanor wrote:
>
> let's build on that and run with another strawman construction.
> What if we just had one way to group things, with a nice set of
> attributes.
>
> <ChunkOCaveData name=aaaaa, type=bbbb date=ccccc ...>
> .....
> </ChunkOCaveData>
>
> Okay pick a different name! <Group>?
>
> Nest them all you want, as can be allowed in XML.
I do not think groupings outside of surveys and caves would be useful, artificial at best.
Groupings should be handled by the software applications identifying keywords in the
attributes of the objects, survey dates, locations, shot prefixes, etc.
Garry Petrie
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