XML Dictionary File Problem

Hi Glenn/Michael:

I am authoring an app which uses your XML dictionary file to offer a list of dictionaries for download. In presenting this list to the user, I want to indicate which dictionaries available for download are newer than those the user already has installed.

Unfortunately, the release date given for dictionaries in the XML file does not match the last-modified date for the actual dictionary files (and dictionary files hold no version info), so there is no reliable way to inform the user. May I suggest either (a) the releasedate of dictionaries is changed to match the actual dictionary file last-modified date, or (b) a 'lastmodifieddate' attribute is added to the version item of dictionaries in the XML file.

The better alternative, of course, would be for dictionary files to hold version info, but I presume this would require an API change (in Addict 4?).

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