From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: xml-parse-file and text properties Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:09:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <41021.128.165.123.18.1153773482.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153797083 15858 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2006 03:11:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:11:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 25 05:11:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5DKG-0008Bn-Qj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:11:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5DKG-00026W-GF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G5DIb-00013X-58 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:09:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G5DIa-00012J-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:09:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5DIZ-00011i-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:09:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G5DJn-0004JN-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1G5DIY-0001U8-E0; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:09:30 -0400 Original-To: herring@lanl.gov In-reply-to: <41021.128.165.123.18.1153773482.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (herring@lanl.gov) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57588 Archived-At: It seems cleaner to me to define a property symbol (like `composition' or `fontified') as "necessary" to the text if it (the symbol) has a non-nil value for one of its properties -- say, `necessary', or `textual'. Then there could be `strip-superficial-properties' that removed text properties whose names lacked the property. I think that is a good idea. Stefan convinced me that we do not need this now, but I think it would be useful to start writing it, for installation after the release.