From 6f137a54919af02b06781171b9bbe672fe2ae0ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jpr <jpr>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:19:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix tagKey description

---
 src/gdcmCommon.h | 39 ++++++++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/gdcmCommon.h b/src/gdcmCommon.h
index dfcbddf7..056fdbc5 100644
--- a/src/gdcmCommon.h
+++ b/src/gdcmCommon.h
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
   Program:   gdcm
   Module:    $RCSfile: gdcmCommon.h,v $
   Language:  C++
-  Date:      $Date: 2005/07/07 17:55:08 $
-  Version:   $Revision: 1.69 $
+  Date:      $Date: 2005/07/11 08:19:37 $
+  Version:   $Revision: 1.70 $
                                                                                 
   Copyright (c) CREATIS (Centre de Recherche et d'Applications en Traitement de
   l'Image). All rights reserved. See Doc/License.txt or
@@ -107,33 +107,14 @@ GDCM_EXPORT extern const std::string GDCM_BINLOADED;
 GDCM_EXPORT extern const std::string GDCM_NOTLOADED;
 GDCM_EXPORT extern const std::string GDCM_UNREAD;
 
-/// \brief TagKey is made to hold an "universal" (as in URL, Universal
-///        Ressource Locator) key to a DocEntry i.e. a dicom tag.
-///        A dicom tag always has a group and an elem, but a set of tags
-///        embeded in various (optionally nested) sequences and sharing
-///        the same group and elem all share the same (group, elem)
-///        "identifier". Hence the (group, elem) cannot be used as an
-///        identifier (in gdcm we shall refer to a "TagKey") of a tag.
-///        In order to construct a proper tag identifier (i.e. a key) we
-///        consider the following definition of a TagKey:
-///        - let Group, Element be the string representation of the
-///          group and elem dicom tag members,
-///        - let ItemNumber be the string representation of the integer
-///          index of the considered item number of a sequence,
-///        Let the key of a tag embeded in a sequence, noted SeqTag, be
-///        the form:
-///           /ItemNumber#Group|Element
-///        where "/", "#" and "|" are characters acting as separators.
-///        Then the general form of a TagKey is given by:
-///           Group|Element[SeqTag]
-///        where [SeqTag] means NO or many instances of SeqTag.
-///        Hence the TagKey of a tag not "leaving" in a sequence is the
-///        string e.g. 
-///            0028|1201
-///        but the TagKey of a tag "embeded" is the first item of
-///        a sequence, itself nested in the third item of a sequence is the
-///        string e.g.
-///            0004|1220/2#0008|0082/0#0008|0090
+/// \brief TagKey is made to hold the standard Dicom Tag (Group number, Element
+/// number)
+/// Instead of using the two '16 bits integers' as the Hask Table key, we
+/// converted into a string (e.g. 0x0018,0x0050 converted into "0018|0050")
+/// It appears to be a huge waste of time.
+/// We'll fix the mess up -without any change in the API- as soon as the bench
+/// marks are fully performed.
+
 typedef std::string TagKey;
 typedef std::string TagName;
 
-- 
2.48.1