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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

first of all thanks for working on this Jo, had a look at the code and it
seems quite fine.

Second I think your first version "[1]" was good, almost just fine and much
better than the second. I would prefer having dxf as root but if you really
really want to have isolated datavalusets I guess we can pipe the message
through an xslt and end up with dxf since the datavalueset part can be
similar. The important thing for me is that we have one parser. We will see
enough complexity through maintenance of new minor/major versions of the
format/parser and I would really like to only have one of these things to
maintain:)

Re the dxf objective there is no doubt that there is currently more use than
complete serialization. To be concrete we can already create "tailored"
export files through the detailed meta-data export UI, we do almost-full
meta-data exports to update meta-data in different databases and in India/SL
they do lots of exports of datavalues only between offline and online
systems. Now we are sending datavaluesets. And I think all of these messages
can belong in a common DXF2 schema.

Anyway, I think this will be good. I am hoping you can take the effort to
put it back to [1]. We can then build on the parser you have made to make it
work with DXF 2 when we have more time.

cheers

Lars