[ID3 Dev] ID3 chapter tags feedback

Chris Newell chris.newell at rd.bbc.co.uk
Wed Oct 19 04:02:48 PDT 2005


Patrick,

Thanks for your analysis and comments.

At 23:52 18/10/2005, you wrote:
>Why do you constrain a CTOC element to only have one class of children? 
>I have a number of use-cases I sketched out that would be more 
>cumbersome with this constraint, and so I was wondering what the 
>rationale was.

I think the original motivation was simplicity. However, if you have a use-case which requires a mixed list of child elements we should support it.

Changes to the specification would be limited to the removal of the Child Element Type flag and the associated restriction.

Chris


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