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
