[SIS-298] Simplification in MetadataTreeFormat output

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7
• Fix Version/s: 0.8
• Component/s: Metadata
• Assignee: Martin Desruisseaux
• Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux
• Created: 14/Oct/15 09:16
• Updated: 17/Nov/17 14:17
• Resolved: 03/May/17 22:13

Description

We could simplify and clarify a little bit the tree produced by the MetadataTreeFormat by using two additional rules:

Use less lines in simple case

If a property has the same name than the parent property that contains it, we could write its value in that parent property. For example instead of:

Citation
 └─Date
    ├─Date…………………… 2012/01/01
    └─Date type …… Creation

We could simplify as:

Citation
 └─Date…………………………… 2012/01/01
    └─Date type …… Creation

Tell the sub-type

If a property has the same name than the value type, and if that value type has sub-type, we could format the actual value sub-type in the tree. For example Citation as a property named party of type Party (ignoring multi-occurrences). But Party has two sub-types: Individual and Organisation. So instead of:

Citation
 └─Cited responsible party
    └─Party
       └─Name ……………………………… Jon Smith

It would be helpful to format:

Citation
 └─Cited responsible party
    └─Individual
       └─Name ……………………………… Jon Smith