[vorbis] Re: PROPOSAL: Sub-Tagging

[Jonathan Walther]

Why you are trying to create a hierarchy from non-hierarchical
data is beyond me.  You holler "keep it simple!"  then shove all
the complexity into the parsing code and make it nonsensical for
the eye to read in plain text.  There comes a time when you can't factor
something out any more.  Just deal with it, instead of trying to hide
the complexity in bloaty spots where it will come back and bite you
later.

I think you better explain why you think your method is "simpler" than
the one currently in the proposal.  From a coders point of view, yours
is hella more complex.

Jonathan

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 03:53:25PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:20:07AM +0100, Trick <gerry at c64.org> wrote:
>| 1. Make it simple.
>| 2. Make it (optionally!) detailed.
>[...]
>| Subtags are for detailed comments, and has the form:
>| 	ARTIST=COMPOSER=Xz
>| 	ARTIST=PERFORMER=Yz
>
>How about
>
>	ARTIST/COMPOSER=Xz
>
>There's just something about the two "=" that bugs me (and we can feed
>Jonathan's UNIX preferences this way too:-).
>
>| Supertag "ORIGIN":
>| 	Subtag "ALBUM"
>| 		Album this work came from, if any.
>| 	Subtag "MEDIA"
>| 		Media.
>[...]
>
>Nice! Solves the SOURCEMEDI* problem and introduces a very simple hierachy
>without reaching for XML.

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