[gt-users] gff3 parser

[Brent Pedersen]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Gordon Gremme <gremme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> But I can see your point that this behaviour is unexpected from the
>>> user perspective.
>>>
>>> One solution would be to use Name attributes instead of ID attributes.
>>> They don't have to be unique and are properly retained. Another
>>> solution would be to implement the possibility to retain the ID
>>> attributes as far as possible (uniqueness might require
>>> modifications).
>>
>> yeah, i've added an arbitrary attribute instead of using ID or Name.
>> as a naive user, i'd prefer that gt left attributes unchanged, but using
>> an attribute other than id works fine.
>
> I agree that it would be more intuitive if the IDs would be retained
> as much as possible.
> Just created a ticket for it, but I probably won't have time to
> implement it myself.
>
> If someone want's to tackle it, just let me know and I give the
> corresponding pointers on where to look in the code. It's a good task
> to get started with the codebase.
>
> Gordon

i'll give it a try then, if you show me where to look.


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