[vos-d] s5 site ids

[Peter Amstutz]

You've got it.  Setting up aliases based on prefix at the top of the XOD 
file was exactly the solution I had in mind to the verbose-site-ids 
problem.  Similarly in the code generator we just need to emit a macro 
which hides the scary site namespace.

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 06:04:50PM -0500, Reed Hedges wrote:
> 
> 
> In VOS it in fact would be easy to build a little tree of the types with 
> different names to make them easier for people to work with, while 
> keeping their real names hidden.
> 
> So you can make an object like "/t" and select out the specific top 
> level versions used from the containers ("namespaces"?) with the big ids.
> 
> E.g.
> 
> /t/vos -> /vos:0011223344556677889900aabbccddee/vos
>    ...Has various children for core types...
> /t/a3dl -> /vos:0011223344556677889900aabbccddef/a3dl
>    ...Has various children for 3d types...
> /t/mytypes -> /vos:992288337744beffc38aa3712cdd219a8e/mytypes
>    ...Has various children for custom types...
> 
> /foo type="/t/mytypes/foo"
> /bar type="/t/a3dl/object3d"
> 
> Maybe we even enshrine a container like /t or /_types as standard place 
> to put the "working set" of types, as a convention that all user 
> interfaces use, and so when they are telling a user what the type of a 
> vobject is, they can just strip off the prefix, or when preseting the 
> user with a list of possible types, just provide a listing (or tree 
> view) of the children of /t, etc.
> 
> Or a UI can just look at the type definition to get a user friendly type 
> name.
> 
> But OK, in the general case, we need to come up with ways like this to 
> help users navigate vobjects, whether in a particular application or in 
> VOS stuff like this, without having to put a lot of special stuff in the 
> user interface clients.
> 
> Reed

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