Metadata support: Extensions handling

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/12/13 8:33 PM, "Brent Putman" <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:
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>Right, that occurred to me.  Which argues for not necessarily
>indiscriminately copying down every Extension. It might have to be
>smarter than that.

I had envisioned a whitelist of extensions to process naively (meaning the
XML be copied) and then others that would be handled in more precise ways,
and then stuff that just would be ignored.

>That would be nice.  Other than paper-and-pencil guesstimation, I don't
>know how to get numbers other than implement it both ways and somehow do
>perf metrics.  Which would be a lot of work.

Yes, so I mainly meant not assuming that simple approaches wouldn't work
fast enough until they're proven not to. And there's always the
expectation that it really can't scale in batch form in the end anyway, so
how much work do you do to make it better?

-- Scott