[Java-collab] Simple Text Exchange Format

[Andreas Schmitz]

Francisco José Peñarrubia wrote:

Hi,

> About this format, I would recommend some suggestions:
> 1.- Take care about encoding.

Very good point. Preferably just make it mandatory to store the encoding in the
header (like ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 etc).

> 2.- At least, set a default date / time format or specify also in header.

Also good point. You seem to base everything on XML/XSD, which should be fine.

> 3.- If you include an index file (for example, longs with the position  
> in file where each record starts, it may allow you to spatially index  
> the file, random access and edit each record without rewriting the whole  
> file. Even to set a order (to put a feature below other, for example).

I'm not sure about the random access (it's a text file, with various line
lengths, which makes this hard to do).

On another note: please make the used reference system mandatory as well (I like
your use of QNames here) ;-)

Best regards, Andreas
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