propagating an attribute

> OPS folks,
>
> I'm building an application in which the XML format has many
> "enAuthor" attributes to clarify the author of a given element.  I
> could use a little advice.  My intent is to have one entry field
> which binds to multiple enAuthor attributes.  So good so far...
>
> Except, the design (for good or bad, not my choice) is that a
> subsequent person may come along and edit the document and their name
> should be listed.  In otherwords, the first author may create the
> following document:
>
> <root>
>   <note enAuthor="person A">blah blah</note>
>   ... (many more note tags, etc)
> </root>
>
> And another person comes along and adds a note tag.  I want it to be
> thus:
>
> <root>
>   <note enAuthor="person A">blah blah</note>
>   <note enAuthor="person B">blah blah</note>
>   ... (many more note tags, etc)
> </root>
>
> I'm thinking of two strategies to deal with this, but if others on
> the list have suggestions I would be most grateful:
>
> 1) Via XForms try to set a "dirty bit" of sorts for each new
> element.  Whenever an element is repeated, mark it in some way and
> then set the enAuthor attribute when saving.
> 2) Similar to the previous, but when repeating any element set the
> enAuthor to blank and then set all blank enAuthor attributes upon
> submit.
> 3) Again, similar to the previous, but use a pipeline on the server
> to populate empty enAuthor attributes.
>
> I'm leaning toward solution #2, but I would be most obliged if the
> wisdom of crowds could chime in.
>
> Duane
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