Typically Joe Everyguy, from my experience as an IT professional, will just double-click (or single click depending on settings) the file from Windows Explorer/Mac Finder. (Us *NIX folks have our own way of looking at things...) if the file has the .xml extension it will work correctly. If we do find that a fair portion of users go the long route of Open notepad, go to file>open, browse to the file, select, and click the Open button, then we can simply leave a SGML comment up near the top that says something to the effect of:
<!-- NOTICE: Windows users please open in Internet Explorer. Mac users, open in Safari. Other browsers may also be acceptable. --> Ricky Crons Stardust On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Rob Nelson <nexisentertainm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
