<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi,<div><br><div><div>On 18 Nov 2013, at 23:06, David van der Spoel <<a href="mailto:spoel@xray.bmc.uu.se">spoel@xray.bmc.uu.se</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br>Yes this would be possible, but most xml gurus tend to shy away from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>attributes in favor of xml tags. Note that different tags implement<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>different units here.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Right - I was mostly thinking about (semi-)automatic parsing again. Is there a limit to how high the factors can be and/or which ones can/must be present? </div><div><br></div><div>With a schema, I think it will be super-easy to require that an element contains a series of other elements with tag “q”, and an attribute “order” that must be a unique integer - it might even be possible to require that they start from 0 and must be continuous.</div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, we probably need to set a limit that we can have e.g. q0 through q5.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><blockquote type="cite"><br>* Finally, to try and help rather than nitpicking about specific fields:<br>David, perhaps you do a high-level description about the things you want<br>to encode, and what choices we need for that? What choices are allowed<br>in different parts?<br></blockquote>There is a paper submitted by my coworkers. There is even the beginning<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>of a manual description in the patch in gerrit. Is that what you mean?</div></blockquote><br></div></div><div>“If everything else fails, read the documentation.” </div><div><br></div><div>My bad - I’ll have a go at that :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Erik</div></body></html>