[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Metadata in subtables.
- From: Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:38:39 -0500
[quoted lines by Bert Frees on 2017/01/12 at 13:42 +0100]
But anyway, this doesn't change the fact that tables that are not top-level
are of no interest to the user (they are only internal artefacts for
organizing the code), so to have metadata in these tables is useless in my
opinion because metadata only makes sense in connection with users (or
programs). Right?
I don't think so. Data is data, and the reason for wanting access to that data
shouldn't make any difference. What doesn't make sense to me is having more
than one way to sotre/look up data just because its foreseeable uses are
different. To me, that's adding complexity where it isn't requried.
For example, what can a user/program do with the author information of an
internal table?
But why should that matter insofar as how the data is being stored and how it
can be looked up? While we mightn't think of a reason a user would want to do
it, does that make it wrong should a user ever think of a reason?
Table maintainers might want to look up tables for other reasons. Should they
be forced to use more than one tool depending on their reasons?
Of course it is useful to have that information in the file,
but why would you need to be able to programmatically collect that data?
I don't think that the fact that I mightn't want to do it means that it should
be made impossible.
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