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["blair christensen." <>]

On 2/27/07, Tom Barton 
<>
 wrote:
> The xml-import utility in grouper 1.1 in fact requires the attribute
> named 'immediate' with each subject being listed in a group. For
> example, instead of
>
>    <list field="members">
>      <subject id="stc"/>
>    </list>
>
> use
>
>    <list field="members">
>      <subject id="stc" source='Brown' type='person' immediate='true' />
>    </list>
>
> Note that the 'type' and 'source' attributes are also documented as
> being required, but I haven't in fact tested if they are. The
> documentation shows 'immediate' as optional. I think the documentation
> is supposed to be as intended, so perhaps this is a code bug, not a
> documentation bug. But one or the other.

I'll take a look at changing this for the 1.2.0 release.
"immediate='true'" should be the assumed default.

The XML importer could almost certainly be better about reporting
errors as well.