[opensource-dev] O.O Display name code DROP!

Rob Nelson nexisentertainment at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 01:54:59 PDT 2010


  This.  Say Joe Everyguy wants to look for a rather hot conversation he 
had with what he assumes was a very attractive-looking female 
yesterday.  With a text logfile, he just has to open the log in notepad 
and CTRL+F for "VerySexy Lady".  Since that was her display name at the 
time, it's included along with her real name (trucker.bob) and is 
therefore searchable. (Since the realname is included as well, it is 
also searchable.)

With what I've seen of the LLSD log, he'd open it up, be presented with 
what he thinks is gibberish, and then close it.  If he tried to search 
for "VerySexy Lady", he wouldn't find anything because only the UUID is 
included.

If the desire is to come up with a more easily parsed format for OH 
records, add an option to log to a non-LLSD XML file that is more easily 
transformed using XSL.  Something like:

<log channel="localchat">
<said id="UUID" type="object" displayname="An object" 
location="secondlife:///..." timestamp="Date/Time">STUFF</said>
<said id="UUID" displayname="Rob Nelson" realname="rob.nelson" 
timestamp="Date/Time">What was said</said>
<shouted id="UUID" displayname="Rob Nelson" realname="rob.nelson" 
timestamp="Date/Time">What was said</shouted>
<whispered id="UUID" displayname="Rob Nelson" realname="rob.nelson" 
timestamp="Date/Time">What was said</whispered>
</log>

Rob

On 10/17/2010 1:34 AM, Lance Corrimal wrote:
> Am Sonntag 17 Oktober 2010 schrieb Ricky:
>> I agree, the XML notation is far from perfect (see some of my posts
>> last year about the subject,) however I consider it better than
>> either text or this almost-JSON notation for a variety of reasons,
>> all laid out in https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-23451 for
>> ease of reference.
>>
>> Assuming that the order of fields is fixed, a fair assumption as
>> LLSD requires it I believe, then the XSLT isn't so bad, and a
>> prototype has already been made.
>>
>> On the subject of using other standard tools, such as
>> grep/sed/awk/etc., I fully agree.  This is why I'd fight against
>> any binary or compressed format.  However, no such proposal has
>> been made.
> Guys, keep one thing in mind:
>
> the average user has no inclination of "processing" the logfiles with
> anything.
>
> The average user, at best, will open the logfiles in notepad to look
> at them, and to find stuff like "what was the name of that place that
> i heard about at that or that date".
>
> The average user runs windows, where tools such as grep/awk/sed are
> not exactly common, either.
>
>
> bye,
> LC
>
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