[Java-collab] Simple Text Exchange Format

[Francisco José Peñarrubia]

Andreas Schmitz escribió:
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>> 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).
>>     
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> I'm not sure about the random access (it's a text file, with various line
> lengths, which makes this hard to do).
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> On another note: please make the used reference system mandatory as well (I like
> your use of QNames here) ;-)
>
> Best regards, Andreas
>   
You are right, can't edit without rewriting the whole file, but random 
access is possible. Same behaviour that shape files.

Cheers.