Reference Impl

[Kimbro Staken]

If anyone is interested there is an updated reference implementation of 
the XML:DB  API available from CVS. The reference implementation is a very 
simple file system based XML data store. It still needs work, especially 
in the documentation area (there isn't any) but is useful to help with the 
development of XML:DB API drivers in Java. There is also a test suite that 
can be used to help with driver development as well. The ref impl is 
currently Core Level 1 with BinaryResource and CollectionManagementService 
support as well.

The tests currently pass for the reference impl and dbXML, and indeed they 
will interoperate in a simple application that I have. Now this isn't a 
huge deal since I wrote both implementations, so they had better 
interoperate, but we have to start somewhere. The eXist project also has 
an implementation of the API but it will not pass the tests right now. 
This is actually good though, because it's made a lot of problem areas 
clear. The test suite is also a long, long way from complete, but it is a 
good start and is very handy for testing drivers.

You can get the ref impl from CVS by checking out xmldb/xapi/src.

I've also made a tar file available, but it shouldn't be considered any 
kind of release yet. http://www.xmldatabases.org/xapi/xmldb-
ref-10282001.tar.gz

Any and all help with this thing would be greatly appreciated.

BTW, thanks to John Landers for providing some code to implement the 
documentID setting in XPathQueryService.

Kimbro Staken
The dbXML Project
http://www.dbxml.org
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