[Rpm-metadata] one additional attribute

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:41:37PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> Hi, 
>  Some of you might be following my bits of strife with speeding up the
> importing of the metadata using python and libxml2.
> 
> I've gotten the code to a point using the xmlReader interface to libxml2
> - ran into a snag of having no way to produce an intelligent progress
> callback for feeding back into an interface to give the user some
> estimate of when it would be done.
> 
> so I'm wondering if everyone thinks it would be ok to add a total
> packages counter attribute to the first tag in the metadata ie:
> 
> primary.xml:
> <metadata packagecount="1610">
> 
> filelists.xml:
> <filelists packagecount="1610">
> 
> otherdata.xml:
> <otherdata packagecount="1610">
> 
> it shouldn't disrupt any other parsers but it would mean nicer progress
> callbacks for those folks who will hopefully use the importing routines
> in python.
> 
> Does this sound ok?

  This certainly sounds fine to me :-)

Daniel

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