Re: [lmi] Calculation Summary columns selection

[Evgeniy Tarassov]

On 11/7/06, Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2006-11-7 2:10 UTC, Evgeniy Tarassov wrote:
> >
> > I have added some more not-so-pretty methods to configure_settings so
> > that when the settings are written back into the xml file, it does not
> > include the default values specified in the configurable_settings
> > constructor.
>
> The defaults hardcoded in C++ are intended only as plausible
> values for entities not present in 'configurable_settings.xml',
> although generally it's better for all of them to be specified
> in that file.
>
> In practice, I think a customized 'configurable_settings.xml'
> is always distributed. Any values in that file should override
> the defaults hardcoded in C++. IOW, if the new calculation-
> summary-column-selections entity is changed, then saving the
> file should change only that entity.

Does this mean that any auxiliary formatting in the
configurable_settings.xml has to be preserved? Like when user comments
in some values in the xml file.
An (insane) example of configurable_settings.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configurable_settings>
 <!-- bring home some food tonight -->
 <xslt_directory>/etc/custom/cslt/dir</xslt_directory>
 <!-- brush cat's teeth tomorrow -->
</configurable_settings>

Do we have to preserve these user comments or could we just discard
it? If we could, then life will be much easier. :)